From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Tue Nov 11 23:38:11 2008
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:38:11 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Issue with Mac OSX version of R (PR#13275)
In-Reply-To: <20081110183513.07566282EFF6@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>
References: <20081110183513.07566282EFF6@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <7E386B5B-58B2-47CD-81FB-C264C8675BB3@r-project.org>

Please do your homework before posing invalid bug reports --  
apparently the mirror you're using is not currently working - so just  
pick another one. Also "Other Directory URL" is NOT for repositories  
as the name implies (ever wondered why there is a "Other Repository"  
entry?).

Thanks,
S


On Nov 10, 2008, at 13:35 , gpapkov at rice.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Galen papkov
> Version: 2.8.0
> OS: Tiger v.10.4.11
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.7.91.106)
>
>
> The Package Installer cannot seem to find the CRAN source.  When I  
> try to "Get
> List", I get the following error:
>
> Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) :
>  Found continuation line starting '    <!DOCTYPE HTML P ...' at  
> begin of
> record.
>
> I also tried to put the URL in directly with the "Other Directory  
> URL" option
> and I got
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.r-project.org/
>
> Thank you.
>
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[Rd] Issue with Mac OSX version of R (PR#13275)
Simon Urbanek