
Hi Picohan
I had a really similar error messages recently when trying to install packages from sources and it was related to my version of windows not being in english. See this for a discussion:
 
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Building-package-DESCRIPTION-file-not-existing-td3935084.html
 
Cheers,
Francois Rousseu  
 

> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:11:24 -0700
> From: hansen@picoquant.com
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Error installing packages
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> Thanks for the tip, but I am not on win 7, I am on win xp.
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