[R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Mon Apr 14 20:17:03 CEST 2014


Hello,
I have package XML installed on Windows 7, R 3.0.3 and I had no problem 
at all. Can't you try (it worked with me)

install.packages("XML", repos = "http://cran.dcc.fc.up.pt")

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 14-04-2014 16:24, Alpesh Pandya escreveu:
> I have tried these sources (almost all US mirrors):
>
> http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
>
> I have confirmed with IT that there is no restriction on downloading this
> zip file from any of these sources. Also I am getting same error when I try
> from my home network as well.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 13.04.2014 01:30, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>
>>> @Uwe I tried the same steps from office as well as home network with same
>>> results. Are you using windows 7 with R 3.0.3?
>>>
>>> I have seen same question being asked by others without any resolution. Is
>>> anything special about XML package? I am OK use older version of package
>>> but in archives there are no zip files (only gz files). Is windows
>>> platform
>>> not recommended for R?
>>>
>>
>> Right, and you can try to install these from sources.
>> But I doubt you need it. You still have not told us if you tried another
>> mirror to download the XML file from and what you local IT support tells
>> you while your downloads are incomplete.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>>> ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12.04.2014 22:39, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Thank you for response Uwe. I tried multiple times by downloading the
>>>>> zip
>>>>> file from many sources but still the same error. This is a major road
>>>>> block
>>>>> for me in using R. Appreciate any help on this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Please ask your local IT staff.
>>>>
>>>> I get, using the same mirror:
>>>>
>>>>   options("repos"=c(CRAN="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror"))
>>>>> install.packages("XML", lib="d:/temp")
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> trying URL 'http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>>>>
>>>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip'
>>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>>>> opened URL
>>>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>>>
>>>> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>>
>>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>>>           d:\temp\RtmpqMqL8L\downloaded_packages
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>>>>> ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>>>>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>    Works for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11.04.2014 17:10, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Using install.package('XML') command produces this error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> trying URL
>>>>>>> '
>>>>>>> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>>>>>>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
>>>>>>> '
>>>>>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>>>>>>> opened URL
>>>>>>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>>>>>>> "Type")) :
>>>>>>>       cannot open the connection
>>>>>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>>>>>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>>>>>       downloaded length 4276224 != reported length 4288136
>>>>>>> 2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> 3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>>>>>>> "Type"))
>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>       cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
>>>>>>> 'No
>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Upon receiving this error, I downloaded XML_3.98-1.1.zip directly from
>>>>>>> cran
>>>>>>> site. But this zip file is not a valid archive (cannot open using
>>>>>>> winzip).
>>>>>>> Also trying to install using this downloaded file produces the
>>>>>>> following
>>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Installing package into 'C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/
>>>>>>> win-library/3.0'
>>>>>>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>>>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>>>       error 1 in extracting from zip file
>>>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>>>       cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
>>>>>>> 'No
>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>>>> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I  downloaded this zip file from multiple sources and tried to install
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> same result.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>




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