[R] FW: Installing BRugs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:

> 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.

There was a problem with the http connection.  It happens ....

>
> 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)
> bxc at steno.dk   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)
> ACJS at Steno.dk
>
> This e-mail (including any attachments) is intended for ...{{dropped:8}}
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595