[R] Cannot update.packages (error message)

[Uwe Ligges]

Richardson, Patrick wrote:
> Uwe,
> 
> I deleted "gregmisc" from by library folder and ran update.packages() again and I still get the same error:
> 
> package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : 
>   malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field



I am lost where this comes from.

So, can you then please grep through all DESCRIPTION files in your 
library for "bundle" and tell me in which DESCRIPTION files this is present.

Or even better: Can you try to debug yourself from which DESCRIPTION 
file it comes from?

I'd set
   options(error=recover)
and then go into the unpackPkg environment and check the actual objects 
therein.


Thank you and best wishes,
uwe



> Best regards,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM
> To: Richardson, Patrick
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)
> 
> 
> 
> Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> I was able to reinstall every package you suggested except for "gregmisc" (see below)
>>
>> package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : 
>>   malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
>>
>> I've again tried update.packages() and the ones that fail are:
>> fBasics
>> Matrix
>> plm
>> R2HTML
>> timeSeries
>> zoo
>>
>> When trying to install the above packages I receive the same error are originally reported (same as in "gregmisc").
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed.
> Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages() 
> after that?
> 
> Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your 
> library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems?
> 
> Uwe
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:01 AM
>> To: Richardson, Patrick
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)
>>
>>
>>
>> Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>>> When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages
>>>
>>> package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :
>>>   malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
>>
>> Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed 
>> package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc, 
>> BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work 
>> again afterwards.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>> Win XP SP3
>>>
>>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  tcltk     utils     methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3    R2HTML_1.59-1  Hmisc_3.5-2
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0      lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5    tools_2.9.0
>>>
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