[R] unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:31 PM, clue_less wrote:

>
> I tried to select a mirror site from R, but got the following error -
>
>
>> chooseCRANmirror()
> Warning message:
> In open.connection(con, "r") :
>  unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
>
>
> The consequence is that i have to install R-packages by downloading  
> zip
> files one by one, and then load them one by one.

Dear clue_less:

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
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