Hi,

I have tried to download the bootstrap.tar.gz from the website below:

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Old/0.50/INDEX.html

I have extracted the folder to a zip file...and then use the load packages from local zip files.
I use R2.0.0.0 and windows NT, i get the error:

1: error -1 in extracting from zip file 
2: cannot open file `bootstrap/DESCRIPTION' 

ALso, when i use R CMD INSTALL with the package name bootstrap.tar.gz it gives a syntax error.
Can you help me with this pLease?

Sincere Regards,
Neba Noyan
Research Assistant
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation Institute
Rutgers University

P.S:
ReLated solutions  in the mailing List are below:

> solved : 
> before installing using menu option, go to "program files\R\rw1051\library" and 
> make a directory "pubbias", then install the package from the local zip file 
> option. 

> 1) the zip file might have invalid internal structure. Maybe it is 
>missing the directory `pubbias' (although the unzip code should cope with 
>that, and that's not the error code I would expect). 
>2) This is not the first attempt to do something like this, and Windows 
>had the location in use. (I have seen that one, and after a reboot it 
>worked cleanly.) 
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