[R] Issue installing packages - Linux

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Lars,
A mystery, but for the bodgy characters in your error message. Perhaps
there is a problem with R trying to read a different character set
from that used in the package.

Jim

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can’t seem to be able to install packages on a redhat-linux-gnu. For
> instance, this is what happens when I try to install “bitops”. Any hint on
> what might be the issue would be much appreciated.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>
>> Sys.setenv(https_proxy="https://labproxy.com:8080")
>> install.packages("bitops", lib="mypath ")
>
> Here I choose: 22: (HTTP mirrors) and then a mirror 16:Canada(ON)
>
> * installing *source* package âbitopsâ ...
> ** package âbitopsâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package âbitopsâ
>
> I’ve also tried from the shell (after downloading the package source)
>
> $  R CMD INSTALL bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
> ERROR: cannot extract package from bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
>
> Thank you,
> Lars.
>
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