When I try to install packages from CRAN under the menu of Packages, it always gives me the following messages: > {a <- CRAN.packages() + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)} trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' What's wrong? Thanks. Guangchun

> When I try to install packages from CRAN under the menu of Packages, it > always gives me the following messages: > > {a <- CRAN.packages() > + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)} > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' > What's wrong? Could be any number of things, but is really a R issue rather than a bioconductor issue. You might want to bounce this over to the R-help mailing list: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch -J