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

Mark Difford mark_difford at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 1 22:22:51 CEST 2008


Hi Scotty,

Can't give an answer from what you've provided, but one temp. work-around
that might work is to get onto CRAN -- packages and download the packages
you need from your web browser as zip files, then do an "Install package(s)
from local zip files..." from the Packages menu.

HTH, Mark.


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
> 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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