@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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.