Had yesterday something pretty similar on the 73 installing benchmark: Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) : incomplete block on file
The downloaded source packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/n9/zxfxcd01557dc06bf3c1njy00000gn/T/RtmpkwQyuQ/downloaded_packages’ Warning messages: 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : downloaded length 247786 != reported length 474551 2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : downloaded length 280942 != reported length 403808 3: In install.packages("benchmark") : installation of package ‘relations’ had non-zero exit status 4: In install.packages("benchmark") : installation of package ‘benchmark’ had non-zero exit status Today doing the same worked perfectly. On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:10 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > >> I have stopped using the Berkeley mirror, and just automatically use UCLA >> due to missing packages. However, I feel no compulsion to extrapolate and >> say that there is "some sort of corruption going on at CRAN mirrors" because >> it is only one data point. > > I have not been having this sort of difficulty with the Berkeley mirror. > Never have seen this particular error. Occasionally see the mirror down on a > weekend, but that happens with all mirrors. (I do use Berkeley as my standard > mirror and I do download a relatively large number of packages especially at > the point where I call `update.packages`.) > > > -- > David. > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> David Arnold <dwarnol...@suddenlink.net> wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Consider this attempt: >>>> install.packages("car") >>> trying URL >>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/car_2.0-19.tgz' >>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1326903 bytes (1.3 Mb) >>> opened URL >>> ========================================== >>> downloaded 1.1 Mb >>> >>> car/data/Rdata.rdb: Truncated tar archive >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >>> >>> The downloaded binary packages are in >>> >>> /var/folders/qE/qEavkZWTFMmxjncuY+HnqE+++TI/-Tmp-//Rtmpnxi1hV/downloaded_packages >>> Warning messages: >>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : >>> downloaded length 1126960 != reported length 1326903 >>> 2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 >>>> >>> >>> This seems to be happening frequently at the cran berkeley site. I've >>> also >>> had students try to install R from the Berkeley site and it just >>> doesn't >>> work for them. >>> >>> I had another student tell me today he tried all sorts of mirrors and >>> could >>> not get R and knitr installed until he tried the Washington site. >>> >>> Is there some sort of corruption going on at the CRAN mirrors? >>> >>> D. >>> >> > > > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.