[R] Installing R, R packages

[Simon Zehnder]

Had yesterday something pretty similar on the 73 installing benchmark:

Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) :
  incomplete block on file

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/private/var/folders/n9/zxfxcd01557dc06bf3c1njy00000gn/T/RtmpkwQyuQ/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  downloaded length 247786 != reported length 474551
2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  downloaded length 280942 != reported length 403808
3: In install.packages("benchmark") :
  installation of package ‘relations’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("benchmark") :
  installation of package ‘benchmark’ had non-zero exit status

Today doing the same worked perfectly.


On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:10 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> 
>> I have stopped using the Berkeley mirror, and just automatically use UCLA due to missing packages. However, I feel no compulsion to extrapolate and say that there is "some sort of corruption going on at CRAN mirrors" because it is only one data point.
> 
> I have not been having this sort of difficulty with the Berkeley mirror. Never have seen this particular error. Occasionally see the mirror down on a weekend, but that happens with all mirrors. (I do use Berkeley as my standard mirror and I do download a relatively large number of packages especially at the point where I call `update.packages`.)
> 
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>> 
>> David Arnold <dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> Consider this attempt:
>>>> install.packages("car")
>>> trying URL
>>> 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/car_2.0-19.tgz'
>>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1326903 bytes (1.3 Mb)
>>> opened URL
>>> ==========================================
>>> downloaded 1.1 Mb
>>> 
>>> car/data/Rdata.rdb: Truncated tar archive
>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>>> 
>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>> 
>>> /var/folders/qE/qEavkZWTFMmxjncuY+HnqE+++TI/-Tmp-//Rtmpnxi1hV/downloaded_packages
>>> Warning messages:
>>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>> downloaded length 1126960 != reported length 1326903
>>> 2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> This seems to be happening frequently at the cran berkeley site. I've
>>> also
>>> had students try to install R from the Berkeley site and it just
>>> doesn't
>>> work for them.
>>> 
>>> I had another student tell me today he tried all sorts of mirrors and
>>> could
>>> not get R and knitr installed until he tried the Washington site.
>>> 
>>> Is there some sort of corruption going on at the CRAN mirrors?
>>> 
>>> D.
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
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