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adasgupta

01 Mar, 2011 08:56 PM

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Something that just came up in Windows (at work). I'm running WinXP 64
bit and R 2.11.1 32-bit. If I try to install packages from RStudio, it
hangs on me, whereas the same packages install fine on the native GUI.
Once installed, it shows up just fine within RStudio.

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Joe Cheng on 02 Mar, 2011 04:45 AM

   

   How about if you use the install.packages function from within RStudio console? If that works, then this is a proxy networking bug that we're aware of.

   Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

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2. 3 Posted by adasgupta on 02 Mar, 2011 03:55 PM

   

   Yes, thank you.

   I do appreciate the quick responses from you guys, knowing you're
   probably swamped with the new release. Keep up the good work..

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3. 4 Posted by adasgupta on 02 Mar, 2011 03:59 PM

   

   A quick followup. From the console, if I specify the repository in the
   install.packages command, it works fine. If it is not specified and
   tries to find the default setting, it hangs....it doesn't even ask to
   choose the repos.

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4. Support Staff 5 Posted by Joe Cheng on 03 Mar, 2011 04:14 PM

   

   Gotcha. This is a proxy bug that we are aware of and have a bug report filed for. In the meantime, sorry for the inconvenience! I think if you set the repos option in R manually in your .Rprofile or something then at least you can do install.packages without specifying the repos each time.

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