[R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/20/2006 4:19 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4
> year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig.  It was a clean install – R
> is the only non-MS program running.

I normally try to support people who are using R in Windows, but I don't 
have plans to get Vista any time soon.  So it would be appreciated if 
anyone else out there who does plan to use Vista would volunteer their 
help in supporting it.

In the meantime, I suppose you should report this error to Microsoft.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files.  (I have
> R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the
> difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together
> nicely as they should.)  
> 
> The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without incident,
> but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error
> message:
> 
> 
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip
> '
> Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 38Kb
> 
> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm'
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Charles Annis, P.E.
> 
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