[R] md5 hash is wrong for 2.6.2 (Windows)

Paul Lynch plynchnlm at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 22:41:49 CET 2008


Hi,
   I've downloaded R-2.6.2-win32.exe (base) from two CRAN sites
(http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CRAN/ and
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/) and for both of those sites the
expected MD5 hash is reported to be:
     ed512872818707f27ca05f08be7363c2 *R-2.6.2-win32.exe
(See, for example, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/md5sum.txt).

   However, when I compute the MD5 hash (using two different MD5 hash
generators) I get
      4acf8298a829c2787b8fe848f866999a *R-2.6.2-win32.exe

Could someone check and confirm that the MD5 sums on the CRAN server
are incorrect?  (And fix it?)  Thanks,
      --Paul

p.s.  Given that two CRAN servers have the bad value, I'm guessing
it's safe to install.  It installed okay is seems to be running fine.


-- 
Paul Lynch
Aquilent, Inc.
National Library of Medicine (Contractor)



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