[R] connexion problem getHdata (HMisc)

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Tue Aug 9 23:19:31 CEST 2005


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> Hi
> 
> Just installing R and some packages in my new job; trying to download 
> dataset directly from 
> biostatistics dptm of Vanderbilt University using getHdata from Hmisc I 
> get the following:
> 
> Error in file (file, "r") : connexion openinig not possible
> Furthermore : 
> connexion to 'biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu' impossible on port 80 
>  
> Can one get around this problem?
> 
> NOTE: I am not an administrator on the system....
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> 
> Anne Piotet  

It is hard for me to help when you provided no code and no output from 
typing

  version

at the command prompt.  You also did not include the version of Hmisc. 
I tried a small test:

library(Hmisc)
getHdata(titanic3)

and it worked fine, using the most recent Hmisc.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
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