On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 07:36:43PM +0100, dam...@thiriet.web4me.fr wrote: > Hello, > > > Do R users have trouble with loading packages from CRAN repos? > I tried several mirrors and always have an answer sounding like > (I am translating from French): > unable to reach repo index from http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/src/contrib > > I searched misc and rseek without finding anything but searching the > web for R troubles is quite cumbersome. Any hint? > Thanks! > > PS: I tried both tk-interface and install.packages("maptools", > repos="http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl"). > R CMD INSTALL works so I can always upload manually, but install.packages > uploads automatically dependencies >
I just tested install.packages("maptools", repos = "http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl") and it worked fine. Does $ ftp http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/src/contrib/PACKAGES work? --