Hi,

 I try to install the XML package, but unfortunatelly I get an erroron
uncompressing it

'Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) :
incomplete block on file'

I tried it manually using WinZip and tra in a Cygwin shell and get also errors
there.

  gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
  tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I tried to extract the versions XML_3.9-0.tar.gz, XML_3.98-0.tar.gz and
XML_3.98-1.tar.gz in Cygwin and got always the same error.

To take care, that the reason is not any download problem since I sit behind a
firewall and proxy I checked if also other packages from
<http://www.omegahat.org/R/src/contrib/>  behave the same, but I was able to
untar

R2GoogleMaps_0.2-0.tar.gz  RCUDA_0.4-0.tar.gz  RCurl_1.95-4.tar.gz
 RGraphicsDevice_0.5-0.tar.gz

in a Cygwin shell with ‘tar tvzf …’ without any problems.

I can't believe that the XML package basically always is broken but I also don't
understand what I'm doing wrong.

 Do you have an idea?

Regards

Wasili
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