[R] reinstalling R/ mandrake 9.1/ rpm

[Sam McClatchie]

OS: linux Mandrake 9.1
R Version 1.8.1  (2003-11-21),
GNU Emacs 21.2.93.1
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Colleagues

I'm reinstalling R after reformatting a partition containing the 
applications software. The urpmi returned this error:

[root at localhost R]# urpmi R-1.8.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
installing R-1.8.1-1mdk.i586.rpm

Preparing... 
##################################################
    1:R                      #################error: unpacking of 
archive failed on file 
/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/00Index.html;40036372: cpio: read

I did not see any mention of this problem in the help archive Is there 
any problem with the rpm? Or perhaps just something odd on my system? 
Should I uninstall the rpm using something like urpmi.removemedia, and 
then try and install the source with ./congure, make and make install?

Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Sam
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