[R] Cannot update.packages (error message)

[Richardson, Patrick]

Uwe,

I deleted "gregmisc" from by library folder and ran update.packages() again and I still get the same error:

package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : 
  malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
>

Best regards,

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM
To: Richardson, Patrick
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)



Richardson, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> I was able to reinstall every package you suggested except for "gregmisc" (see below)
> 
> package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : 
>   malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
> 
> I've again tried update.packages() and the ones that fail are:
> fBasics
> Matrix
> plm
> R2HTML
> timeSeries
> zoo
> 
> When trying to install the above packages I receive the same error are originally reported (same as in "gregmisc").
> 
> Any ideas?


Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed.
Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages() 
after that?

Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your 
library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems?

Uwe




> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:01 AM
> To: Richardson, Patrick
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)
> 
> 
> 
> Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>> When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages
>>
>> package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :
>>   malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
> 
> 
> Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed 
> package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc, 
> BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work 
> again afterwards.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>> Win XP SP3
>>
>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  tcltk     utils     methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3    R2HTML_1.59-1  Hmisc_3.5-2
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0      lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5    tools_2.9.0
>>
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