[R] Pixmap package for Windows

Wolfgang Huber w.huber at dkfz-heidelberg.de
Thu Sep 19 12:53:06 CEST 2002


Hi,
I tried to install the "pixmap" package on R 1.5.1. running on Windows 2000,
but all I get are the following errors - could it be that something is wrong
with the build of this particular package? Installation of other packages (I
just tried with "pinktoe") seems to work fine.

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### When trying to "Install Package from CRAN"
> {a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)}
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 7505 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 7505 bytes

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/pixmap.zip'
Content type `application/zip' length 62184 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 60Kb

Delete downloaded files (y/N)? N
The packages are in C:\DOKUME~1\whuber\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rinstdir19169
updating HTML package descriptions
Warning message:
error -1 in extracting from zip file


### When trying to "Install Package from local zip file"
### (which I downloaded today from CRAN)
> install.packages("D:/temp/pixmap.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
updating HTML package descriptions
Warning message:
error -1 in extracting from zip file

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Dr. Wolfgang Huber
http://www.dkfz.de/abt0840/whuber
Tel +49-6221-424709
Fax +49-6221-42524709
DKFZ
Division of Molecular Genome Analysis
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

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