On 24/01/2007, at 7:09 AM, Nüzhet Dalfes wrote: > Hi, > > I am a total newbie to R. I am using R (2.4.1) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 and > trying to install some packages using GUI Packages & Data/Package > Installer > interface... > > Every time I get: > > trying URL > 'http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/ > contrib/2.4/neural_1.4.1.tgz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 18920 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 18Kb > > Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open compressed file 'neural/DESCRIPTION' >> > > What am I doing wrong? > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Nüzhet Dalfes > > Istanbul Tech. Univ.
This looks like a permissions problem, possibly your account doesn't have Administrator privileges. Try selecting "At User level" for the Install Location in the install packages dialog. There is a special mailling list for mac problems, at https:// stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac which may provide a better answer. Ken ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.