[R] Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/30/2007 2:39 PM, Gaurav Ghosh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI.  The package would not install and I got the following message:
> 
> "trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : 
>         cannot open URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' 
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  : 
>          download of package 'sp' failed"
> 
> I tried to find the installation file "sp_0.9-10.zip" through the CRAN website, but was unable to do so.  So I was wondering if there was some other way to get this package I need.  Or perhaps  there might be some problem with the website itself.


You didn't say which mirror you were using, but it looks like a problem 
there.  I just tried from one of the Canadian mirrors and there was no 
problem finding the package.

Duncan Murdoch