Hello,  I'm trying to install the package metRology from SourceForge.  I save the zip file metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz to my Windows 7 machine, and try to install the package using the RGUI:  Packages > Install packages from local zip files > metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz.  There's no .zip extension, but R seems to go to work on the installation with a couple warning messages and one error.

The menu Packages > Load Package ...  doesn't provide metrology as one of the choices.


======R session window ========

> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
Warning in unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) :
  error 1 in extracting from zip file
Warning in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
  cannot open compressed file 'metRology_0.9-06.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
  cannot open the connection

Do I use a utility such as 7-zip to decompress the underlying files, then re-zip into a file with the .zip extension?
Thank you, Paul


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] Rcmdr_1.8-1 car_2.0-12  nnet_7.3-1  MASS_7.3-16

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.14.0

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