From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Sep 16 14:59:33 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue Sep 16 14:59:11 2003
Subject: [Rd] With the recent OS changes (windows 2000) necessitated by
	(PR#4187)
In-Reply-To: <200309161251.h8GCp8JH020353@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0309161357480.2252-100000@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

This is not a bug.  It indicates that *you* don't have direct internet
access.  There is an item in the rw-FAQ about this.

Please do not use R-bugs to report problems in your own environment, nor to
ask questions (especially those covered in FAQs).

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 ggruene@lumc.edu wrote:

> With the recent OS changes (windows 2000) necessitated by various worms, etc, I have now been receiving this error message when I run update and I am not sure how I can correct.
>
> >update.packages()
> >trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  :
>         cannot open: HTTP status was `404'

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[Rd] With the recent OS changes (windows 2000) necessitated by (PR#4187)
Prof Brian D Ripley