[ESS] Select CRAN mirror fails the first time

[Stavros Macrakis]

Thanks, I guess I might as well set the CRAN repository once and for
all, but it's good to know that library(tcltk) also solves the
problem.

           -s

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, James W. MacDonald
<jmacdon at med.umich.edu> wrote:
> This is a long standing problem between ESS and rterm. AFAIK, you can get
> the selection window to pop up when running R in _any_ way other than R/ESS
> (rterm from the command line, Rgui, etc.).
>
> You can get around the problem (in decreasing order of kludginess) by
> setting your CRAN repository as Stephen notes below, or by loading the tcltk
> package first, or by either
>
> chooseCRANmirror()
> or
> install.packages()
>
> then a real quick C-g, C-c C-c to unfreeze the process. After which you can
> use either of the above functions and the selection window will pop up as
> normal.
>
> This final 'solution' comes in handy when you try to use install.packages()
> and at the last moment realize that you haven't set your CRAN repository nor
> loaded tcltk ;-D
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
> Stephen Eglen wrote:
>>
>> If you set the CRAN repos as an option beforehand, does that avoid the
>> problem?
>>
>> e.g. in my .Rprofile I have:
>>
>> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R"),
>>        papersize="a4")
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I have not been able to reproduce this problem when running Rterm.exe
>>> under the Windows command line cmd.
>>>
>>>            -s
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When I perform a command that requires a CRAN mirror (e.g.
>>>>> update.packages) under ESS, the system hangs and does not display the
>>>>> CRAN mirror selection window.  If I quit out of this (C-g C-c C-c) and
>>>>> try again, it works on the second try.  Under the RGui, the popup
>>>>> window works the first time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a fix or workaround for this?
>>>>>
>>>>>           -s
>>>>>
>>>>> ESS 5.3.10
>>>>> R 2.8.1
>>>>> Emacs 22.3.1
>>>>> Windows XP
>>>>>
>>>> Actually, I think I have seen this problem both with and without
>>>> ESS using the R command-line rather than the GUI.  So, I don't
>>>> think this is an ESS issue.  But, under Windows, I suppose you
>>>> can't test it from the command line, correct?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Sr. Biostatistician              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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