[R] Newbie question: error message with install.packages

Thu Aug 20 08:17:40 CEST 2015

> On Aug 19, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Peter Wicher <pjwicher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m starting to work my way through “Machine Learning With R” by Brett Lantz.  
> 
> Running on Mac OS X 10.10.4
> 
> I’ve downloaded and installed R and the R Console comes up fine.  
> 
> Whenever I use the install.packages command, regardless of the package I get the same error message:
> 
>> install.packages ("RWeka")
> Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!
> 
> Any idea of what is wrong and how to solve it?  

Not sure. Have never gotten that error message, and I do use OS X 10.10.3 as well as having very recently updated to R 3.2.2.

Are you using the R.app GUI?

If so … What do you see when you look at Preference/Startup for the default CRAN repository?

If not … What do you see when you run:

getOption("repos”)

I get:

                          CRAN 
"http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu" 

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Peter Wicher
> pjwicher at gmail.com
> 
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