Your issue is a corrupt download. Try another CRAN mirror.
In any case, the current version of R includes that version of boot, so you need to update (before posting, as the posting guide asked you to). On Thu, 1 May 2008, Scotty Nelson wrote:
I'm having trouble installing packages in Windows Vista. It's driving me nuts. I read all the threads and I have tried the following: 1) Right click on R and Run as Administrator 2) Turn off User Account Control 3) Toss machine across room (OK haven't tried this one yet, but I'm close) Here is the R error messages I am getting --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/boot_1.2-32.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 777751 bytes (759 Kb) opened URL downloaded 32 Kb Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : downloaded length 33219 != reported length 777751
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Did you not see that?
2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 3: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'boot/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Can anybody help? My presentation is in 14 hours and right now I'm thin on results. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! -- Scotty -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installing-Packages-in-Windows-Vista----YES-I-tried-Run-as-Administrator-tp16993043p16993043.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
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