[R] warning message cran

[Uwe Ligges]

On 27.04.2010 12:21, Gustave Lefou wrote:
>   Dear R users,
>
> I have downloaded some packages. The beginning is very slow until I am
> allowed to choose a CRAN server. Then it is faster.
>
> I get a warning message each time at the end of the download :
>
> "The downloaded packages are in
>          C:\etc
>
> Warning message:
> In open.connection(con, "r") :
>    unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80."
>
> Is it a serious problem ?


No, as you may have noted form many messages on R-help / R-devel, the 
CRAN master is down today.

Your R tries to get a recent list of mirrors from CRAN master and after 
that runs in a timeout, you get the list shipped with R and select a 
mirror, hence just ignore it.

Uwe Ligges






> Thank you very much,
> Gustave
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