[R] FW: Installing BRugs

[Uwe Ligges]

BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
> A funny thing happened when I wanted a student of mine to install Brugs.
> Using the InstallPackages in the windows version, firts gives an erro, but trying again works flawlessly.
> 
> R version is 2.7.0 on WinXP.
> 
> Any explanation?


No, particularly if it worked the second time. Perhaps a broken machine 
or a broken internte connection..
Uwe


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ACJS (Anders Christian Jensen)
> Sent: 29. juli 2008 11:06
> To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
> Subject:
> 
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/BRugs_0.4-2.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 3399130 bytes (3.2 Mb) opened URL downloaded 3.1 Mb
> 
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   downloaded length 3293996 != reported length 3399130
> 2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 3: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>   cannot open compressed file 'BRugs/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/BRugs_0.4-2.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 3399130 bytes (3.2 Mb) opened URL downloaded 3.2 Mb
> 
> package 'BRugs' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         c:\temp\RtmpKoBifa\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> 
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