[R] update.packages() with R 2.0.0

[Joseph J. Gazaille]

Good day to all of you and thank you for reading this.

I certainly must have done something awfully wrong
when I downloaded and installed R 2.0.0 on a PC
with Windows 98.

You will find below what happens when  I try to 'update.packages()'.

I know what the first 'warning message'  means.
About the others, I ain't got no clue.

Thank you very handsomely for your wisdom.
And thank you also for all that tremendously
wonderful work.

 - joseph




> update.packages()
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 21411 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 20Kb

Error in "colnames<-"(`*tmp*`, value = c("Package", "LibPath", "Version",  :
        length of dimnames [2] not equal to array extent
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first
50)
>

> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: DESCRIPTION file of package  'aaa'  missing or broken
 in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = pkgFlds)
2: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
3: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
4: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
5: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
6: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
7: number of columns of result
        not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
desc))
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 .... etc.  all the same ...