[R] Issue installing packages - Linux

[Lars Bishop]

Thanks Jim. I don't think that is the issue...if anyone else can shed some
light here, that would be much appreciated.

Regards
Lars.

On Saturday, 30 April 2016, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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