[R] Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows

[Martin Morgan]

On 05/22/2017 05:10 AM, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> On Fri, 28-Apr-2017 at 07:04PM +0200, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
> |>
> |> > On 28 Apr 2017, at 12:08 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> |> >
> |> > On 28/04/2017 4:45 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> |> >> Dear Peter,
> |> >>
> |> >> It actually breaks install.packages(). So it is not that innocent.
> |> >
> |> > I don't think he meant that it is harmless, he meant that the fix is easy, and is in place in R-patched and R-devel.  You should use R-patched and you won't have the problem.
> |>
> |> Read more carefully: I said that the _fix_ is harmless for this case, but might not be so in general.
> |>
> |> -pd
>
>
> Apparently it isn't harmless.
>
>> install.packages("withr")
> Error in readRDS(dest) : error reading from connection

that seems like a plain-old network connectivity issue, or perhaps an 
issue with the CRAN mirror you're using. Can you debug on your end, e.g,.

   options(error=recover)
   install.packages("withr")
   ...

then select the 'frame' where the error occurs, look around

   ls()

find the value of 'dest', and e.g., try to open dest in your  browser.

Martin Morgan

>>
>
>>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-19 r72713)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /home/hrapgc/local/R-patched/lib/libRblas.so
> LAPACK: /home/hrapgc/local/R-patched/lib/libRlapack.so
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices utils     stats     graphics  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] lattice_0.20-35
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0    grid_3.4.0
>>
>
> Has anyone a workaround?
>


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