[ESS] one other question

Seth Falcon sethfalcon at gmail.com
Thu May 11 05:31:16 CEST 2006


"MARK LEEDS" <markleeds at verizon.net> writes:

> thanks seth. you are right. i had print(x) in there ( i changed it to
> that at some point ) but when
> i changed it back to just x, it works correctly. you are right in that
> the value set is correct.
> it just doesn't show it.
>
> just one more question : when i click on ESS,>R-> update packages, the
> R session tells me to choose a cran mirror.
> but there doesn't seem to be anyway to choose one ? thanks and i'm
> sorry to bother you so much.

Not sure on that one, but here is a work around:

Before calling update.packages (or doing some weird menu thing ;-) you
should set a default CRAN mirror:

options(repos=<YOUR CHOICE HERE>).

Here's what I have in my ~/.Rprofile file:

options(repos="http://cran.fhcrc.org")




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