Obgos
I'm not expert and hope what I tell you is right... There are two alternative ways to install a package, assuming you can use apt-get (how did you install R?). 1 via apt-get (but don't know if the package you want is there, I'm not on ubuntu machine now) sudo apt-get install r-cran-cvt check existing ones: apt-cache search r-cran-* 2 What I did sometimes when I had proxy problems being in other places was to install manually, it is rather a workaround but if you are in a hurry that can help. Go to CRAN-packages, download the sources of the package you want, go to the terminal and choose the directory where the sources are (using cd), then: R CMD INSTALL package (maybe you need to install few more R package through apt-get such as... mmh what is the name... r-dev I think) Hope this helps Mat 2009/8/28 Michael Rutter <ma...@psu.edu>: > Obgos, > > For some reason your computer (or perhaps just the terminal) does not have > have access to the internet. This is not an R related issue, but a hardware > or Ubuntu related one. > > I suggest you speak to your system administrator or visit the Ubuntu forums > for help. R-sig-Debian is only for R related issues. > > Michael > > ogbos okike wrote: >> >> Good morning all, >> I am running linux on Ubuntus. I am unable to install any R packages. The >> error message below always returns whenever I make an attempt: >> >>> install.packages("cvt") >> >> Warning in install.packages("cvt") : >> argument 'lib' is missing: using '/home/ogbos/R/i486-pc-linux- >> gnu-library/2.8' >> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- >> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done >> Warning: unable to access index for repository >> http://cran.za.r-project.org/src/contrib >> Warning messages: >> 1: In open.connection(con, "r") : >> unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80. >> 2: In install.packages("cvt") : package ‘cvt’ is not available >> >> It does appear that this has to do with internet connection. >> >> I entered ping cran.r-project.org on the command line expecting to see: >> >> 'PING cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 >> time=141 >> ms >> 64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 >> time=142 >> ms >> 64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 >> time=141 >> ms' >> >> But I only saw PING cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37) 56(84) bytes of >> data. >> >> I also tried ping cran.za.r-project.org. The result only show: >> 'PING vhost.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.7) 56(84) bytes of data.' >> >> I do not know what else to do as I am but a new student of R. I will >> please >> appreciate any help. >> Thank you >> >> Ogbos >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > School of Science > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > Station Road > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian