Hi I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem:
After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the built-in menu, I run into the following error message. > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip <http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip> ' Content type 'application/zip' length 971893 bytes (949 Kb) opened URL downloaded 949 Kb Warning in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'ada/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection > traceback() 6: gzfile(file, "r") 5: read.dcf(file.path(curPkg, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Version", "Type")) 4: unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2], foundpkgs[okp, 1], lib, installWithVers) 3: .install.winbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl, method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir, installWithVers = installWithVers, dependencies = dependencies) 2: install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = NA, type = type) 1: utils:::menuInstallPkgs() I tried saving the ZIP of the package to my C drive, and then installing from that, but I get the same error message. I then tried calling gzfile with the filename of the ZIP directly, and I seem to get a file handle without any error message: gzfile("C:/Program Files/R/R-2.6.2/library/ada_2.0-1.zip","r") description class "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.6.2/library/ada_2.0-1.zip" "gzfile" mode text "rb6" "binary" opened can read "opened" "yes" can write "no" It might be worth noting, that I initially I also had problems with the internet download facility, which I fixed starting R with the flag --internet2, as indicated in the FAQs. Can you please help? Many thanks - Philipp PS: I did the same on my PC at home, and there everything works without problems. ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important el...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.
