[R] unable to install XML package on Windows7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, on Windows binary packages are available on CRAN.

And get the source package from CRAN, not Omegahat.  CRAN has had to 
apply corrections to get package XML to work on Windows.

That said, http://www.omegahat.org/R/src/contrib/XML_3.98-1.tar.gz 
downloads and unpacks for me, so the problem seems to be local to you.

On 17/12/2013 07:41, Wasili Goutas wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I try to install the XML package, but unfortunatelly I get an erroron
> uncompressing it
>
> 'Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) :
> incomplete block on file'
>
> I tried it manually using WinZip and tra in a Cygwin shell and get also errors
> there.
>
>    gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>    tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
>    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> I tried to extract the versions XML_3.9-0.tar.gz, XML_3.98-0.tar.gz and
> XML_3.98-1.tar.gz in Cygwin and got always the same error.
>
> To take care, that the reason is not any download problem since I sit behind a
> firewall and proxy I checked if also other packages from
> <http://www.omegahat.org/R/src/contrib/>  behave the same, but I was able to
> untar
>
> R2GoogleMaps_0.2-0.tar.gz  RCUDA_0.4-0.tar.gz  RCurl_1.95-4.tar.gz
>   RGraphicsDevice_0.5-0.tar.gz
>
> in a Cygwin shell with ‘tar tvzf …’ without any problems.
>
> I can't believe that the XML package basically always is broken but I also don't
> understand what I'm doing wrong.
>
>   Do you have an idea?
>
> Regards
>
> Wasili
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