R-helpers:

I just updated from R 7.0 to R 7.2.2 today.  I am using MAC OS X  
version 10.5.4 on a Macbook to run R.

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 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.7.2

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When I tried to update my packages, I got the following messages:

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 > update.packages()
Amelia :
  Version 1.1-30 installed in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
Resources/library
  Version 1.1-33 available at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/ 
CRAN
Update (y/N/c)?  y
empiricalBayes :
  Version 2.0 installed in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ 
library
  Version 2.1 available at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN
Update (y/N/c)?  y
Matrix :
  Version 0.999375-9 installed in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
Resources/library
  Version 0.999375-11 available at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN
Update (y/N/c)?  y

...<snip, all seems well>....

also installing the dependencies ‘sandwich’, ‘strucchange’, ‘vcd’,  
‘rrcov’, ‘spam’

trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/sandwich_2.1-0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 678518 bytes (662 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 662 Kb

trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/strucchange_1.3-3.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 777150 bytes (758 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 758 Kb

...<snip, the errors begin>....

trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/rrcov_0.4-06.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 365965 bytes (357 Kb)
opened URL
==========================================
downloaded 304 Kb

trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/spam_0.15-0.tgz'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   cannot open URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/spam_0.15-0.tgz'
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   downloaded length 312279 != reported length 365965
2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   unable to connect to 'mirrors.ibiblio.org' on port 80.
Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available =  
available,  :
   download of package 'spam' failed
trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/Amelia_1.1-33.tgz'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   cannot open URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/Amelia_1.1-33.tgz'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   unable to connect to 'mirrors.ibiblio.org' on port 80.
Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available =  
available,  :
   download of package 'Amelia' failed

...<snip, the errors continue>....

In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   unable to connect to 'mirrors.ibiblio.org' on port 80.
Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available =  
available,  :
   download of package 'zoo' failed

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
   argument is missing, with no default

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The first part of the procedure seemed to work, then came page after  
page of error messages.  Can someone tell me what is going on here and  
how I can fix the problem?  I found a similar report on R-help that  
was never resolved and also involved a MAC (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/help/08/06/15556.html 
).  Could this be a MAC issue?

Thanks very much for your time.

Brant Inman
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