Got a small fix for this issue. Sharing so that it may help others in future.
options(repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/') Regards, Vivek Kumar Singh PhD student, Information Systems Decision Sciences, MUMA College of Business, USF Phone- (813) 5809131 Web: http://vivek4.myweb.usf.edu/ On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Vivek Singh <viv...@mail.usf.edu> wrote: > > > >> install.packages('RODBC') > > Installing package into ‘/home/vivek/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0’ > > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > > Warning: unable to access index for repository > > https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib > > Warning message: > > package ‘RODBC’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2) > > > > Please suggest any way to either install the package or use another > package > > to connect MySQL database from R. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Vivek Kumar Singh > > > Hi, > > Typically that error is an indication of a problem accessing and reading > files on the CRAN mirror, possibly due to a proxy/firewall issue on your > end and/or perhaps that your R installation does not support HTTPS (secure > http). If the former, you may need to check with your SysAdmin. > > You might try to select a different CRAN mirror, including one that is not > secure http (regular http:// URL) to see if that works. > > Also, note that the version of R that you are running (3.0.2) is from Sep > of 2013, so quite dated. The current version is 3.3.1, which was just > released this month. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.