[R] Help is sought for a small problem

[Uwe Ligges]

Dipl. Ing. Kurt Neumann wrote:
> Dear there,
> 
>>I tried today within my R 1.7.0 under Windows XP the command
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>>update.packages()
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>>and then I answered y in all subsequent questions.
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>>>From the software responses I understood that everythin went OK from VR to Rcmdr, but in survival it said

Are you sure you used R-1.7.0 for Windows? Installing package bundles 
like VR failed in that version, AFAIK. So the first recommendation is: 
Update to R-1.7.1.


>>Error in file(filem "r") : unable to open connection
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> Should read: Error in file(file, "r") : ....

Maybe an error has occured during the download?
Does the error occur again when you try
  install.packages("survival")
?

My guess: It's not survival but VR which fails. Attention: The 
installation starts after download of *all* packages has finished.
Please read http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/ReadMe.

Uwe Ligges


>>So I wonder, what I might have done wrong? Could you please help me?
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> This may be a Windows specific issue.  Can you pls ask on the r-help
> mailing list?
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> Regards,
> -kh
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>>Regards
>>                        Kurt Neumann
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