[BioC] problems intalling bioconductor on windows NT

[Jeff Gentry]

> I believe you need R 1.7.1beta because there are some bugs in 1.7.0
> http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel/rw1071beta.exe

Actually, R-1.7.1 was released today so should be available from CRAN.

> bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch.
> [1] "Installing reposTools ..."
> Error in upDatePkgs(relLevel, PLATFORM, destdir, method = method) : 
>         Failed to install package reposTools
> In addition: Warning messages: 
> 1: downloaded length 932996 != reported length 5348600 
> 2: error 1 in extracting from zip file 

I have no idea what is going on here, but it looks to me like perhaps the
download failed halfway through (the zip file on the server is indeed
5.3MB but the user didn't even get 1MB?)

-J