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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/30/2007 3:37 PM, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
>>From HTTP, the mirror mentioned inline http://cran.us.r-project.org/ has 
> problems, is well behind on versions in the project pages, and
> 
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/
> 
> has no sp package at all. The last check summary is dated 2007-03-16.
> 
> Please try another mirror; if anyone could find out what is the matter 
> with the mirror, and get it corrected, that would be welcome.

I've let them know they're a couple of weeks behind on updates.

Duncan Murdoch