This is not a bug. It indicates that *you* don't have direct internet access. There is an item in the rw-FAQ about this.
Please do not use R-bugs to report problems in your own environment, nor to ask questions (especially those covered in FAQs). On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With the recent OS changes (windows 2000) necessitated by various worms, etc, I have > now been receiving this error message when I run update and I am not sure how I can > correct. > > >update.packages() > >trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open: HTTP status was `404' -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel