[R] r under suse

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:15 -0500, ursu at DMS.UMontreal.CA wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been using R under win XP and I am now changing my system to opensuse 10.2
> When using:
> rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
> 
> I find something like that
> 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/exec/util.tc        ;45b943fe:
> cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards
> Eugen

The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility that the RPM file
that you downloaded is corrupted.

I would re-download the RPM file, possibly from a different CRAN mirror,
and try it again.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz