Hello, many thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I did not mention that my os is Windows 7. I am sorry for that. Some feedback here? > install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/N31k/Documents/R/win-library/2.14’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning: unable to access index for repository http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.14 Warning message: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : package ‘tikzDevice’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2) > utils:::menuInstallLocal() Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open compressed file 'tikzDevice_0.6.2.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' [[alternative HTML version deleted]]