Hi Lars, A mystery, but for the bodgy characters in your error message. Perhaps there is a problem with R trying to read a different character set from that used in the package.
Jim On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Lars Bishop <lars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I can’t seem to be able to install packages on a redhat-linux-gnu. For > instance, this is what happens when I try to install “bitops”. Any hint on > what might be the issue would be much appreciated. > >> sessionInfo() > R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux > >> Sys.setenv(https_proxy="https://labproxy.com:8080") >> install.packages("bitops", lib="mypath ") > > Here I choose: 22: (HTTP mirrors) and then a mirror 16:Canada(ON) > > * installing *source* package âbitopsâ ... > ** package âbitopsâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Error in readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package âbitopsâ > > I’ve also tried from the shell (after downloading the package source) > > $ R CMD INSTALL bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz > ERROR: cannot extract package from bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz > > Thank you, > Lars. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.