[R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package
Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
frtog at vestas.com
Mon Apr 21 14:55:22 CEST 2014
Sorry guys
I didn't do my homework, sorry for cluttering the list. I did know about the source argument.
This worked like a charm:
> install.packages(choose.files(), type="source", repos=NULL)
* installing *source* package 'climatol' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x64
* DONE (climatol)
when choosing the cmiatol_2.2.tar.gz file.
Thanks for your help. That still leaves Alpesh out in the limbo :-(
Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen
Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
> Sent: 21. april 2014 13:21
> To: Milan Bouchet-Valat; Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; Uwe Ligges; Alpesh Pandya
> Subject: Re: [R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package
>
> On 21/04/2014, 7:10 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> > Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 11:38 +0200, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen a écrit :
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Couldn't find a zip file in the archives.
> >>
> >> Why didn't 'R CMD build' (in a command shell on Windows) not make a
> >> zip file? I did try to build from the climatol library that holds the
> >> typical files as DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, etc. as well as folders like R,
> >> etc.
> > R CMD build produces *source* packages, and .zip packages are *binary*.
> >
> >> Did you see the debug information on read.fcf? For me it seems like R
> >> has open a file handler to the DESCRIPTION file. Wouldn't the error
> >> already be thrown there and not when read.fcf is called if the .tar.gz
> >> format was the problem?
> >>
> >> I'll try and locate a zip
> > Does install.packages(choose.file(), type="source") work?
>
> That will also need "repos=NULL", or it will go out to a repository to
> look for the package.
>
> That should work if the package doesn't have compiled code. It will
> handle compiled code only if Frede has the appropriate tools installed.
>
>
> I'm not sure
> > what utils:::menuInstallLocal() does.
>
> It is essentially
>
> install.packages(choose.file(), type="binary", repos=NULL)
>
> so it's not what Frede needs.
>
> Duncan
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >> Sendt fra Samsung mobil
> >>
> >>
> >> -------- Oprindelig meddelelse --------
> >> Fra: Jeff Newmiller
> >> Dato:21/04/2014 09.44 (GMT+01:00)
> >> Til: Frede Aakmann Tøgersen ,Alpesh Pandya ,Rui Barradas
> >> Cc: r-help at r-project.org,Uwe Ligges ,Duncan Murdoch
> >> Emne: RE: [R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package
> >>
> >> Frede... Windows uses zip files (binary, aka pre-compiled format) for
> packages by default, because most installations don't have the development
> tools installed. You need to setup RTools and use the "source" option to
> install_package in order to handle the tar.gz package file, or download and
> install the zip file instead.
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live...
> >> DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go...
> >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing
> >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
> >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> >>
> >> On April 20, 2014 11:01:17 PM PDT, "Frede Aakmann Tøgersen"
> <frtog at vestas.com> wrote:
> >>> Well now, I think I have seen something similar to Alpesh.
> >>>
> >>> Recently I needed the climatol package that I have used some time ago.
> >>> It is not maintained anymore but I downloaded the latest version,
> >>> climatol_2.2.tar.gz, from archives
> >>> (http://cran.r-
> project.org/src/contrib/Archive/climatol/climatol_2.2.tar.gz
> >>> ) . Trying to install that package from local file using R-3.1.0 on
> >>> Windows 8 resulted in this:
> >>>
> >>> ## From R Console
> >>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> >>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
> >>> "Type")) :
> >>> cannot open the connection
> >>> In addition: Warning messages:
> >>> 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
> >>> file
> >>> 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
> >>> :
> >>> cannot open compressed file 'climatol_2.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION',
> probable
> >>> reason 'No such file or directory'
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> And yes I know where the file is located, since choose.files() is used.
> >>>
> >>> However I tried the same on our linux (R-3.0.2) cluster and it
> >>> succeeded:
> >>>
> >>> [frtog at dkrdsfshn2 ~]$ R CMD INSTALL climatol_2.2.tar.gz
> >>> * installing to library
> >>> ?/gpfs02/gcdistro/app/R/3.0.2-gcc4.8.2/lib64/R/library?
> >>> * installing *source* package ?climatol? ...
> >>> ** R
> >>> ** data
> >>> ** inst
> >>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> >>> ** help
> >>> *** installing help indices
> >>> ** building package indices
> >>> ** installing vignettes
> >>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> >>> * DONE (climatol)
> >>> [frtog at dkrdsfshn2 ~]$ R
> >>>
> >>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
> >>> Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> >>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >>>
> >>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> >>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> >>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> >>>
> >>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
> >>>
> >>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> >>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> >>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> >>>
> >>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> >>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> >>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
> >>>
> >>>> library("climatol")
> >>>> ?rosavent
> >>>> q()
> >>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
> >>> [frtog at dkrdsfshn2 ~]$
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Now unzipping and untaring climatol_2.2.tar.gz I thought to examine
> >>> whether I could build the package on my Windows box. Only R stuff and
> >>> no foreign language as C, FORTRAN, etc. so it should be easy.
> >>>
> >>> ## Command shell in Windows
> >>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
> >>> (c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >>>
> >>> C:\Users\frtog>cd Desktop
> >>>
> >>> C:\Users\frtog\Desktop>c:\Programmer\R\R-3.1.0\bin\x64\R CMD build
> >>> climatol
> >>> * checking for file 'climatol/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> >>> * preparing 'climatol':
> >>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> >>> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> >>> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> >>> * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
> >>> * building 'climatol_2.2.tar.gz'
> >>>
> >>> Now trying to install from that local file I Still got the same error
> >>> as above.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Trying to do some debugging on read.dcf() (Emacs/ESS)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) -- "Spring Dance"
> >>> Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> >>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> >>>
> >>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> >>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> >>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> >>>
> >>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
> >>>
> >>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> >>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> >>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> >>>
> >>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> >>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> >>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
> >>>
> >>>>> options(chmhelp=FALSE, help_type="text")
> >>>> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'",
> >>> editor='emacsclient.exe', show.error.locations=TRUE)
> >>>> debug(read.dcf)
> >>>> install.packages("~/Desktop/climatol_2.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
> >>> debugging in: read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"),
> c("Package",
> >>> "Type"))
> >>> debug: {
> >>> if (is.character(file)) {
> >>> file <- gzfile(file)
> >>> on.exit(close(file))
> >>> }
> >>> if (!inherits(file, "connection"))
> >>> stop("'file' must be a character string or connection")
> >>> if (!all)
> >>> return(.Internal(readDCF(file, fields, keep.white)))
> >>> .assemble_things_into_a_data_frame <- function(tags, vals,
> >>> nums) {
> >>> tf <- factor(tags, levels = unique(tags))
> >>> cnts <- table(nums, tf)
> >>> out <- array(NA_character_, dim = dim(cnts), dimnames = list(NULL,
> >>> levels(tf)))
> >>> if (all(cnts <= 1L)) {
> >>> out[cbind(nums, tf)] <- vals
> >>> out <- as.data.frame(out, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
> >>> }
> >>> else {
> >>> levs <- colSums(cnts > 1L) == 0L
> >>> if (any(levs)) {
> >>> inds <- tf %in% levels(tf)[levs]
> >>> out[cbind(nums[inds], tf[inds])] <- vals[inds]
> >>> }
> >>> out <- as.data.frame(out, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
> >>> for (l in levels(tf)[!levs]) {
> >>> out[[l]] <- rep.int(list(NA_character_), nrow(cnts))
> >>> i <- tf == l
> >>> out[[l]][unique(nums[i])] <- split(vals[i], nums[i])
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> out
> >>> }
> >>> on.exit(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")),
> >>> add = TRUE)
> >>> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "C")
> >>> lines <- readLines(file)
> >>> ind <- grep("^[^[:blank:]][^:]*$", lines)
> >>> if (length(ind)) {
> >>> lines <- strtrim(lines[ind], 0.7 * getOption("width"))
> >>> stop(gettextf("Invalid DCF format.\nRegular lines must have a
> >>> tag.\nOffending lines start with:\n%s",
> >>> paste0(" ", lines, collapse = "\n")), domain = NA)
> >>> }
> >>> line_is_not_empty <- !grepl("^[[:space:]]*$", lines)
> >>> nums <- cumsum(diff(c(FALSE, line_is_not_empty) > 0L) > 0L)
> >>> nums <- nums[line_is_not_empty]
> >>> lines <- lines[line_is_not_empty]
> >>> line_is_escaped_blank <- grepl("^[[:space:]]+\\.[[:space:]]*$",
> >>> lines)
> >>> if (any(line_is_escaped_blank))
> >>> lines[line_is_escaped_blank] <- ""
> >>> line_has_tag <- grepl("^[^[:blank:]][^:]*:", lines)
> >>> ind <- which(!line_has_tag[which(diff(nums) > 0L) + 1L])
> >>> if (length(ind)) {
> >>> lines <- strtrim(lines[ind], 0.7 * getOption("width"))
> >>> stop(gettextf("Invalid DCF format.\nContinuation lines must not start a
> >>> record.\nOffending lines start with:\n%s",
> >>> paste0(" ", lines, collapse = "\n")), domain = NA)
> >>> }
> >>> lengths <- rle(cumsum(line_has_tag))$lengths
> >>> pos <- cumsum(lengths)
> >>> tags <- sub(":.*", "", lines[line_has_tag])
> >>> lines[line_has_tag] <- sub("[^:]*:[[:space:]]*", "",
> >>> lines[line_has_tag])
> >>> foldable <- rep.int(is.na(match(tags, keep.white)), lengths)
> >>> lines[foldable] <- sub("^[[:space:]]*", "", lines[foldable])
> >>> lines[foldable] <- sub("[[:space:]]*$", "", lines[foldable])
> >>> vals <- mapply(function(from, to) paste(lines[from:to], collapse =
> >>> "\n"),
> >>> c(1L, pos[-length(pos)] + 1L), pos)
> >>> out <- .assemble_things_into_a_data_frame(tags, vals, nums[pos])
> >>> if (!is.null(fields))
> >>> out <- out[fields]
> >>> out
> >>> }
> >>> Browse[2]> str(file)
> >>> chr "climatol_2.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION"
> >>> Browse[2]> head(file)
> >>> [1] "climatol_2.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION"
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: if (is.character(file)) {
> >>> file <- gzfile(file)
> >>> on.exit(close(file))
> >>> }
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: file <- gzfile(file)
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: on.exit(close(file))
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: if (!inherits(file, "connection")) stop("'file' must be a
> >>> character string or connection")
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: if (!all) return(.Internal(readDCF(file, fields, keep.white)))
> >>> Browse[2]> str(file)
> >>> Classes 'gzfile', 'connection' atomic [1:1] 3
> >>> ..- attr(*, "conn_id")=<externalptr>
> >>> Browse[2]> file
> >>> description class
> >>> "climatol_2.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION" "gzfile"
> >>> mode text
> >>> "rb" "text"
> >>> opened can read
> >>> "closed" "yes"
> >>> can write
> >>> "yes"
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> debug: return(.Internal(readDCF(file, fields, keep.white)))
> >>> Browse[2]>
> >>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
> >>> "Type")) :
> >>> cannot open the connection
> >>> In addition: Warning message:
> >>> In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
> >>> cannot open compressed file 'climatol_2.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION',
> probable
> >>> reason 'No such file or directory'
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Well coming to debug: if (!all) return(.Internal(readDCF(file, fields,
> >>> keep.white))) I loose control and R returns to prompt with an error.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully one of you can replicate this. If not then it must have
> >>> something with Windows OS to do. But what?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
> >>> Specialist, M.Sc., Ph.D.
> >>> Plant Performance & Modeling
> >>>
> >>> Technology & Service Solutions
> >>> T +45 9730 5135
> >>> M +45 2547 6050
> >>> frtog at vestas.com
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> >>>
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> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> >>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> >>>> On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller
> >>>> Sent: 20. april 2014 23:33
> >>>> To: Alpesh Pandya; Rui Barradas
> >>>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; Uwe Ligges
> >>>> Subject: Re: [R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package
> >>>>
> >>>> Hard to help you when the problem simply does not happen for others.
> >>>>
> >>>> As for Windows being not a focus, that is not at all true. I use it
> >>> regularly on
> >>>> Windows at work. That being said, there are thousands of packages
> and
> >>>> those each involve their own subset of R users. There are also many
> >>>> operating system configurations that may not all be fully tested.
> >>> Blaming "R"
> >>>> or "Windows", or blaming us for "preventing" you from getting your
> >>>> education (isn't that something between you and your educational
> >>>> institution?) are not going to be effective strategies for problem
> >>> solving.
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you able to use other aspects of R beyond the XML package? Have
> >>> you
> >>>> tried communicating with the maintainers of that package?
> >>>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go
> >>> Live...
> >>>> DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live
> >>> Go...
> >>>> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#..
> >>> Playing
> >>>> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
> >>>> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#.
> >>> rocks...1k
> >>>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> >>>>
> >>>> On April 20, 2014 11:45:44 AM PDT, Alpesh Pandya
> >>>> <alpeshpandya at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> I keep on trying from various networks but I still get the same
> >>> error.
> >>>>> I
> >>>>> don't this this has anything to do with network or ability to
> >>> download
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> package (as I can install other packages fine). This must be
> >>> something
> >>>>> in
> >>>>> base R or dependencies issues (that R is not spelling out).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I know R is geared for Mac and Windows is kind of looked down upon
> >>> but
> >>>>> I
> >>>>> have no option but use windows and need this XML package running
> to
> >>>>> complete my education. Any help on this would be appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Alpesh Pandya
> >>>>> <alpeshpandya at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Thank you for response Rui.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I still get the same error with this repository.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Installing package into
> >>>>> ���C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/win-library/3.0���
> >>>>>> (as ���lib��� is unspecified)
> >>>>>> trying URL '
> >>>>>> http://cran.dcc.fc.up.pt/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'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Rui Barradas
> >>>>> <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 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.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Thanks and Regards
> >>>>>> Alpesh
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
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