Thanks Liviu, I am trying out what is proposed in the mentioned thread. I start R by "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy="http://proxy.haifis.org:8080"
Then I do the following (selecting "Austria" as mirror) > install.packages("package", method="wget") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Fehler in gzfile(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen Zusätzlich: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'C:\DOCUME~1\n301545\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpnsKQdi\file678418be', probable reason 'No such file or directory' > setwd('C:\\DOCUME~1\\n301545\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpnsKQdi') > install.packages("package", method="wget") Fehler in gzfile(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen Zusätzlich: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'C:\DOCUME~1\n301545\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpnsKQdi\file3d6c4ae1', probable reason 'No such file or directory' > update.packages(ask='graphics') Fehler: Indizierung außerhalb der Grenzen Zusätzlich: Warning messages: 1: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting '<html> ...' is malformed! 2: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting ' <head> ...' is malformed! 3: In read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting '</html> ...' is malformed! > options(download.file.method="wget") > update.packages(ask='graphics') Fehler in gzfile(file, "r") : kann Verbindung nicht öffnen Zusätzlich: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'C:\DOCUME~1\n301545\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpnsKQdi\file5f906952', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Obviously the update.packages does have access to internet, but has problems with the html tag. Who can help? Thomas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.