Thank you for response Uwe. I tried multiple times by downloading the zip
file from many sources but still the same error. This is a major road block
for me in using R. Appreciate any help on this.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:
> Works for me.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
> On 11.04.2014 17:10, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>
>> Using install.package('XML') command produces this error:
>>
>> trying URL
>> '
>> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
>> '
>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>
>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>> "Type")) :
>> cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>> downloaded length 4276224 != reported length 4288136
>> 2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
>> 3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
>> cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
>> file or directory'
>>
>>
>> Upon receiving this error, I downloaded XML_3.98-1.1.zip directly from
>> cran
>> site. But this zip file is not a valid archive (cannot open using winzip).
>> Also trying to install using this downloaded file produces the following
>> error:
>>
>> Installing package into 'C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/win-library/3.0'
>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> error 1 in extracting from zip file
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
>> file or directory'
>> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>>
>> I downloaded this zip file from multiple sources and tried to install
>> with
>> same result.
>>
>>
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Thanks and Regards
Alpesh
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