[R] maps package for Windows

[Rajiv Prasad]

Thanks, Uwe.  I successfully installed maps_2.0-10.

But now I have another problem.  mapdata_2.0-8.zip in the contrib directory
seems to be an invalid zip archive.  I downloaded it using IE, but WinZip
complains about its validity.  If I try to "Install from CRAN" in RGui, I
get the following:

> local({a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)})
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 13514 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 13Kb

trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/mapdata_2.0-8.zip'
Content type `application/zip' length 3153920 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 3080Kb

Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: error 1 in extracting from zip file
2: cannot open file `mapdata/DESCRIPTION'
>

Thanks for all your help, and the wonderful efforts of the whole R team.
I'm trying now to set up the build tools on my Windows laptop, so I can use
the sources directly, and not have to bother you more.  I have some
questions regarding setting up build tools on Windows.  I'll start a new
thread for it.

Thanks again.

Rajiv



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Rajiv Prasad" <rajiv.prasad at charter.net>
Cc: "Hisaji Ono" <hi_ono2001 at ybb.ne.jp>; <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [R] maps package for Windows


> Rajiv Prasad wrote:
>
> > Umm... no, does not work for me yet:
> >
> >
> >>local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> >
> > + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1],
available=a)})
> > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/PACKAGES'
> > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 13514 bytes
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 13Kb
> >
> > trying URL
> > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> > Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
> >         cannot open URL
> > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found'
> >
> >
> > Is it just an issue of the file not haveing reached all mirrors yet?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Rajiv
>
>
> For some (unknown) reason, the automated upload of maps_2.0-10.zip
> failed (it's in the PACKAGES list, though). I'll upload it manually
> today, so it will appear on CRAN master tomorrow.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>