[Rd] Unable to Install Packages from Binaries on Windows for R 3.2.3
peter dalgaard
pdalgd at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 17:33:15 CET 2016
> On 27 Feb 2016, at 05:22 , Ramnath Vaidyanathan <ramnath.vaidya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Installing packages from binaries on Windows seems broken, when using
> mirrors that are up to date with CRAN
>
> install.packages(
> 'httr',
> type = 'binary',
> repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"
> )
>
> Changing repos to the Kansas CRAN mirror installs the package as expected,
> but that could be because the KS mirror has not yet synced.
>
> Someone pointed out that the PACKAGES.gz file at
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/ seems to be corrupted
> (0 KB), and this could be the issue.
It's at 202K now in both places. Perhaps just retry?
-pd
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