[R] Installing R, R packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

I have stopped using the Berkeley mirror, and just automatically use UCLA due to missing packages. However, I feel no compulsion to extrapolate and say that there is "some sort of corruption going on at CRAN mirrors" because it is only one data point.
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David Arnold <dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>All,
>
>Consider this attempt:
>> install.packages("car")
>trying URL
>'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/car_2.0-19.tgz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1326903 bytes (1.3 Mb)
>opened URL
>==========================================
>downloaded 1.1 Mb
>
>car/data/Rdata.rdb: Truncated tar archive
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
>The downloaded binary packages are in
>
>/var/folders/qE/qEavkZWTFMmxjncuY+HnqE+++TI/-Tmp-//Rtmpnxi1hV/downloaded_packages
>Warning messages:
>1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  downloaded length 1126960 != reported length 1326903
>2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 
>> 
>
>This seems to be happening frequently at the cran berkeley site. I've
>also
>had students try to install R from the Berkeley site and it just
>doesn't
>work for them.
>
>I had another student tell me today he tried all sorts of mirrors and
>could
>not get R and knitr installed until he tried the Washington site.
>
>Is there some sort of corruption going on at the CRAN mirrors?
>
>D.
>
>
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