Re: Updating Packages (was Re: [R] Reading of a large SAS Export dat

From: Duncan Murdoch (murdoch@stats.uwo.ca)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 01:29:26 EST

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:17:59 BST, you wrote in message
<7A8EDC417C3@fs2.ma.man.ac.uk>:

>It was suggested to me that, although I've installed version 1.3.0 of
>R, the contained foreign package won't be the most recent. Hence,
>it's worth using update.package(). However, when I did that, I got
>the following log file:
>
>> options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org/")
>> update.packages()
>trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'

Notice you've got two slashes after the site name. I suspect what you
want is

 options(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org")

and indeed the default for that option has no trailing backslash:

> options('CRAN')
$CRAN
[1] "http://cran.r-project.org"

Duncan Murdoch

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