Appreciate your thoughts on this Uwe.
If I make any progress with it I will post back.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:
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>
> On 10.06.2014 16:32, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
>
>> thanks Uwe. I have tried a few mirrors, it makes no difference.
>> I don't have lots of packages, as it's a fresh install.
>> I am installing to the C drive, but as I mentioned it's a virtual desktop.
>> However other programs don't show anything like the kind of delay I see in
>> R.
>> Also, just getting the prompt to choose a mirror takes a minute - could
>> that be a network drive issue too?
>>
>
> Hard to say without access to the machine.
> Sounds more like timeouts or so .....
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>> many thanks
>> Aidan.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>> lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Probably you used a slow mirror and did not tell us which one ... or you
>>> have lots of packages installed on a very slow drive (such as a network
>>> connected location).
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10.06.2014 15:52, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a fresh install of R on a virtual desktop running Win 7 64 bit
>>>> and
>>>> when I try to install packages it is extremely slow.
>>>>
>>>> I typed
>>>> install.packages("ggplot2",dependencies=TRUE)
>>>>
>>>> and it takes about 1 minute for the mirror select box to open. After
>>>> that
>>>> I
>>>> waited about 20 minutes for the ggplot package and then cancelled it
>>>> (smaller packages are quicker than that but still exceptionally slow).
>>>>
>>>> Not sure where to start as other programs work fine and the internet
>>>> connection is fine apart from in R. I have pasted Sessioninfo below. Any
>>>> help is very much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> many thanks
>>>> Aidan.
>>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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