[R] Matrix package download problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Try another mirror.

This looks like a caching problem between you and the mirror, as the entry 
in PACKAGES is correct on the mirror.  (The code tries to avoid cached 
copies, but not all caches cooperate.)

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, 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
> '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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