[R] Matrix package download problem

[Uwe Ligges]

Ashley Ford wrote:

> Trying to install the Matrix package with  install.packages fails for me 
>   on Linux, it is trying to fetch the wrong version 0.99-4, downloading 
> the tgz which is 0.99-6 and using R CMD INSTALL works fine
> 
> 
> The output from the failed install was
> 
>  > install.packages(c("Matrix"))
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-4.tar.gz'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>          cannot open URL 

Looks like your repository information got not updated (the repositorty 
seems to be consistent). A temporary repository information is stored 
and should be refreshed after a R is restarted. How long is your R 
process already opened?
Hence: Please start a fresh R session and try again.

Uwe Ligges


> 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_0.99-4.tar.gz'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = 
> available,  :
>           download of package 'Matrix' failed
>  > R.version
>           _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.1
> year     2005
> month    12
> day      20
> svn rev  36812
> language R
> 
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