[R] Cannot install package xlsx

[Jeff Newmiller]

looks like a corrupt file. try again, or try another server.
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ramoss <ramine.mossadegh at finra.org> wrote:

>I get following error message:
>
>trying URL
>'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/xlsx_0.4.2.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 365611 bytes (357 Kb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 357 Kb
>
>Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>"Type")) : 
>  cannot open the connection
>In addition: Warning messages:
>1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  downloaded length 9027584 != reported length 9041607
>2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
>file
>3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
>:
>cannot open compressed file 'xlsxjars/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No
>such file or directory'
>
>Has anyone else experienced this.  Any way round it?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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