[R] installing new packages

[Alberto Monteiro]

Bill Shipley wrote:
> 
> I have just installed the newest version of R (2.4.1) for Windows 
> XP.  I can no longer install new packages.  When trying to connect 
> to a server (I have tried several) I get the following message:
> 
Bacause of the braindead way Windows XP is installed in my
machine, the only thing that works is this:

(a) outside R, I visit the CRAN site or mirror (the brazilian mirror 
is faster for me; YKMV)

(b) I download the .zip package from the mirror and save it to
some known directory

(c) using RGui, I use the option to install the package from 
a local zip

The worse that can (and does) happen is that normally the package
I want requires other packages, this is easily solved with new 
downloads-and-installs.

Alberto Monteiro