[R] r internet connection is very slow

[Uwe Ligges]

On 10.06.2014 16:32, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
> thanks Uwe. I have tried a few mirrors, it makes no difference.
> I don't have lots of packages, as it's a fresh install.
> I am installing to the C drive, but as I mentioned it's a virtual desktop.
> However other programs don't show anything like the kind of delay I see in
> R.
> Also, just getting the prompt to choose a mirror takes a minute - could
> that be a network drive issue too?

Hard to say without access to the machine.
Sounds more like timeouts or so .....

Best,
Uwe Ligges



>
> many thanks
> Aidan.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>> wrote:
>
>> Probably you used a slow mirror and did not tell us which one ... or you
>> have lots of packages installed on a very slow drive (such as a network
>> connected location).
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10.06.2014 15:52, Aidan Corcoran wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have a fresh install of R on a virtual desktop running Win 7 64 bit and
>>> when I try to install packages it is extremely slow.
>>>
>>> I typed
>>> install.packages("ggplot2",dependencies=TRUE)
>>>
>>> and it takes about 1 minute for the mirror select box to open. After that
>>> I
>>> waited about 20 minutes for the ggplot package and then cancelled it
>>> (smaller packages are quicker than that but still exceptionally slow).
>>>
>>> Not sure where to start as other programs work fine and the internet
>>> connection is fine apart from in R. I have pasted Sessioninfo below. Any
>>> help is very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> many thanks
>>> Aidan.
>>>
>>>   sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
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