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-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of eric lee > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:33 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package? > > Hi, Duncan. I choose 'package' then ''install package' and tried 6 > different U.S. mirrors. The message I always get is: > > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.7 > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7 > Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = NA, > type = type) : > no packages were specified > In addition: Warning message: > In open.connection(con, "r") : > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80. > > I assume it's something on my end because I've been having > connectivity issues here. > > Thanks again for your help. > > eric > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> > wrote: > > On 2/26/2009 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote: > >> > >> Hi. I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows > >> platform, version 2.7.2). I downloaded the elliptic package zip > file > >> from > >> > >> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ > >> > >> and installed it, but it says that it needs the "emulator" package. > >> Can you tell me where to download this? The only similar package by > >> name is 'emu_4.0.zip' which is not 'emulator.' I also can't have R > >> automatically install this by clicking on 'packages' and 'install > >> package' because it gives me an error message. > >> > > > > The current release gives no error if you ask it to install elliptic, > and it > > automatically finds that emulator is in the BACCO bundle. You didn't > say > > what the error message was that you saw, so I can't tell you whether > it was > > due to a problem on CRAN or with what you asked for. > > > > Generally speaking it's easier and less error-prone to just ask R to > install > > a package, rather than manually downloading and installing one. > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.