[R] problem with installing R pacakges

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.07.2012 14:45, Kishor Tappita wrote:
> Dear R- Users,
>
> I am unable to install R packages over the internet. Below is my session
> information. My guess is that this may be
> a proxy issue. I have set the http_proxy_user : my user id(network id) :
> password (machine password) .


Maybe not correctly?

Please see what the R for Windows FAQs say about using proxies. If that 
does not help, ask your local sysadmin. We cannot help.

Uwe Ligges


>
> The error I get is as below
>
>> install.packages("MASS")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> Warning message:
> package ‘MASS’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>
> Below is my session info. I searched in the archives but was not able to
> find the issue. Please excuse me if this
> is a repost.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_India.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_India.1252
> LC_MONETARY=English_India.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=English_India.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.1
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Kishor
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