[R] Problem untarring R-1.8.1.tgz

[Peter Dalgaard]

Alistair Campbell <alistair.campbell at jcu.edu.au> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to untar the source file for R and having no success.
> 
> I have used decompression utilities that handle .tar and .tgz file but
> I keep getting an error that there is a "Header CRC Error".
> 
> So, I am wondering if this is just me and I am not using the right
> decompression utility or whether there is an error in the headers for
> the zip file.
> 
> Anyone have any advice?

I'd suspect a download error. Some browsers do strange things to
binary files. (Heck, they do strange things with text files all the
time.) Otherwise, you might need to give us a bit more information
about what you did and tried exactly.

        -p 

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