When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages



package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :

  malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field

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This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.



Any suggestions?



Best,



Patrick

Win XP SP3



R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)

i386-pc-mingw32



locale:

LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252



attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  tcltk     utils     methods   base



other attached packages:

[1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3    R2HTML_1.59-1  Hmisc_3.5-2



loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0      lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5    tools_2.9.0


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