[R] Error installing extrafonts from local zip file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 13/03/2014 04:31, Robin.Thomson at csiro.au wrote:
> I am making my first submission to Plos One and am trying to install the extrafonts package to obtain Arial for the figures. "extrafonts" was archived at the end of last month so I downloaded first the extrafont_0.16.tar.gz file and then the older extrafont_0.15.tar.gz file.

Those are not zip files.  You need to use (at the command line)

R CMD INSTALL extrafont_0.16.tar.gz

(assuming you have already installed the dependencies).

However, I suggest you use R 3.1.0 alpha which has support for Arial 
built in.

> I selected "Install packages(s) from local zip file" from the Packages menu of my installation of R x64 3.0.0
>
> I got:
>
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
>    cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
>    cannot open compressed file 'extrafont_0.15.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
>
> When I unzip these gz files using Winzip I do find a DESCRIPTION file.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Robin
>
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