A funny thing happened when I wanted a student of mine to install Brugs. Using the InstallPackages in the windows version, firts gives an erro, but trying again works flawlessly.
R version is 2.7.0 on WinXP. Any explanation? Bendix Carstensen ______________________________________________ Bendix Carstensen Senior Statistician Steno Diabetes Center Niels Steensens Vej 2-4 DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark +45 44 43 87 38 (direct) +45 30 75 87 38 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~bxc -----Original Message----- From: ACJS (Anders Christian Jensen) Sent: 29. juli 2008 11:06 To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen) Subject: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/BRugs_0.4-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 3399130 bytes (3.2 Mb) opened URL downloaded 3.1 Mb Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : downloaded length 3293996 != reported length 3399130 2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 3: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'BRugs/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/BRugs_0.4-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 3399130 bytes (3.2 Mb) opened URL downloaded 3.2 Mb package 'BRugs' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in c:\temp\RtmpKoBifa\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions > ___________________________ Anders Christian Jensen Steno Diabetes Center Niels Steensens Vej 2-4 DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark +45 444 22475 (direct) [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail (including any attachments) is intended for ...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.