[R] Problem with package installation

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Jun 21 16:52:09 CEST 2010


No idea, do you have the right repository seledcted? Is there nay proxy 
in your network that may change the download data for some reason? I 
have not observed that before and I haven't seen similar reports before.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 21.06.2010 11:03, Rubén Roa wrote:
>
> Dear ComRades,
>
> I am having the "wrong MD5 checksums" error with every package I try to install.
> It happened with R 2.11.0, then I updated to R 2.11.1, same thing.
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252  LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252    LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1
>
> I triend changing the mirror, to no avail. Then I tried downloading zip files and installing from local zips but again I got the "wrong MD5 checksums" error
>
> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> files R/MASS.rdb, data/Rdata.rdb, help/MASS.rdb have the wrong MD5 checksums
>
> In some cases, another error message pointed to a namespace problem, for example:
>
> library(Formula)
> Error in get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) :
>    internal error -3 in R_decompress1
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Formula'
>
> Any hints?
>
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