[Rd] Fwd: dse package - load failure

[Prof Brian Ripley]

All you need to do is to *read* the ReadMe in the CRAN area.  It says

Be aware that the binary versions of the bundles VR and dse
cannot be updated using update.packages() or install.packages()
in R-1.7.0, because of a bug in rw1070: you need to download the
zip files manually from ./rw1070bundles and unzip them (manually) 
in your local rw1070/library.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Diethelm Wuertz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Sorry a second time again,
> 
> Maybe I have to add that I'm running R under Windows 2000/XP, and
> that the download works properly under 1.062 but not under 1.070.

No such versions of R, BTW!

> 
> Diethelm
> 
> 
> 
> >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:25:33 +0200
> >To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >From: Diethelm Wuertz <wuertz at itp.phys.ethz.ch>
> >Subject: dse package - load failure
> >Cc: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca
> >
> >Dear Paul,
> >Hello R Maintainers,
> >
> >I'm for the first time here and I hope its the right place to give the
> >following information:
> >
> >The contributed R-package "dse" fails to be loaded from the menu button(s).
> >The reason is that it contains 4 sub-packages, dse1, dse2 ..., so the
> >DESCRIPTION file cannot be found. - One has to load it manually!  -
> >Try it ... - It is possible to correct this? Many thanks.
> >
> >
> >Diethelm
> >
> >THE MESSAGE:
> >
> > > install.packages(choose.files('',filters=Filters[c('zip','All'),]), 
> > .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
> >Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> >In addition: Warning message:
> >cannot open file `dse/DESCRIPTION'
> 
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