unable to install packages in R on ubuntu 12.04 - r

I have R installed on my ubuntu 12.04 laptop, I tried to install devtools, slidify and a couple of other packages
The following error message is what I see for ANY package (here shown for slidify) - When I am asked to select a mirror I have picked a couple -
Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks !! Farrukh
install.packages("slidify") Installing package into
‘/home/azfarl/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2’ (as ‘lib’ is
unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : unsupported URL
scheme Warning message: package ‘slidify’ is not available (for R
version 3.2.4 Revised)

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I am an r newbie and would appreciate some help installing ggplot2. I am using RStudio Version 0.98.1102. Please see error below.
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