[R] Installing Packages in Windows Vista -- YES I tried Run as Administrator

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Your issue is a corrupt download.  Try another CRAN mirror.

In any case, the current version of R includes that version of boot, so
you need to update (before posting, as the posting guide asked you to).

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Scotty Nelson wrote:

>
> I'm having trouble installing packages in Windows Vista.  It's driving me
> nuts.
> I read all the threads and I have tried the following:
>
> 1) Right click on R and Run as Administrator
> 2) Turn off User Account Control
> 3) Toss machine across room (OK haven't tried this one yet, but I'm close)
>
> Here is the R error messages I am getting
>
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/boot_1.2-32.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 777751 bytes (759 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 32 Kb
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>  downloaded length 33219 != reported length 777751
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you not see that?

> 2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 3: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>  cannot open compressed file 'boot/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
> file or directory'
>
> Can anybody help?  My presentation is in 14 hours and right now I'm thin on
> results.
>
> THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
>
> -- Scotty
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