[R] Problems downloading statmod cran package

[Uwe Ligges]

Hmmm, your subject says you are going to get statmod,

On 28.04.2011 04:31, Jim Silverton wrote:
> Hello all,
> I keep on getting the following error message when I try downloading
> statmod:
>
>> install.packages("statmod")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\Isaac\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL '
> http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.12/statmod_1.4.9.zip
> '
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>    cannot open URL '
> http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.12/statmod_1.4.9.zip
> '
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>    cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
>    download of package 'statmod' failed
>>
>
> Does anyone has a solution?


Yes: Try again.

I think you managed to try this while the mirror you used was updated 
(and statmod 1.4.10 was already on the mirror while the PACKAGES file 
was not updated and told your R that 1.4.9 was recent).

Uwe Ligges


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