[Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

[Henrik Bengtsson]

We are several seeing this one. It's a known bug, cf.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-January/070513.html

Henrik

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:54 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've noticed the following problem for the past several days:
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>> update.packages(ask=FALSE)
>
> . . .
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
>   download of package 'zoo' failed
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>
> Apparently, the subdirectory for the version number (/3.2) is missing from
> the URL. OTOH, install.packages() works fine:
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>
>> install.packages("zoo")
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 878614 bytes (858 KB)
> opened URL
> downloaded 858 KB
>
> package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
>         C:\Users\John Fox\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuKqvB0\downloaded_packages
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>
> Session info:
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-25 r67615)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.0
>
> ---------------- snip ----------------
>
> Best,
>  John
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>
>
>
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