[R] Update VR_7.1-6

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Tue Jun 3 19:21:50 CEST 2003


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote:

> The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages
> (from local zip files) fails with the following error message:
>
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION'
>
> Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1
> with a similar error message.
>

Because there is a bug in the handling of package bundles in R 1.7.0.  VR
and dse are bundles. R1.7.1 will be coming out soon and fixes this. Or you
can manually unzip the bundle in the appropriate place in the library
directory.

	-thomas




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