@Uwe I tried the same steps from office as well as home network with same
results. Are you using windows 7 with R 3.0.3?
I have seen same question being asked by others without any resolution. Is
anything special about XML package? I am OK use older version of package
but in archives there are no zip files (only gz files). Is windows platform
not recommended for R?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:
>
>
> On 12.04.2014 22:39, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Please ask your local IT staff.
>
> I get, using the same mirror:
>
> > options("repos"=c(CRAN="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror";))
> > install.packages("XML", lib="d:/temp")
>
> 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
>
> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> d:\temp\RtmpqMqL8L\downloaded_packages
>
>
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
--
Thanks and Regards
Alpesh
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