I have tried these sources (almost all US mirrors):

http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip

I have confirmed with IT that there is no restriction on downloading this
zip file from any of these sources. Also I am getting same error when I try
from my home network as well.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:

>
>
> On 13.04.2014 01:30, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>
>> @Uwe I tried the same steps from office as well as home network with same
>> results. Are you using windows 7 with R 3.0.3?
>>
>> I have seen same question being asked by others without any resolution. Is
>> anything special about XML package? I am OK use older version of package
>> but in archives there are no zip files (only gz files). Is windows
>> platform
>> not recommended for R?
>>
>
> Right, and you can try to install these from sources.
> But I doubt you need it. You still have not told us if you tried another
> mirror to download the XML file from and what you local IT support tells
> you while your downloads are incomplete.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>> ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 12.04.2014 22:39, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>>
>>>  Thank you for response Uwe. I tried multiple times by downloading the
>>>> zip
>>>> file from many sources but still the same error. This is a major road
>>>> block
>>>> for me in using R. Appreciate any help on this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Please ask your local IT staff.
>>>
>>> I get, using the same mirror:
>>>
>>>  options("repos"=c(CRAN="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror"))
>>>> install.packages("XML", lib="d:/temp")
>>>>
>>>
>>> trying URL 'http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>>>
>>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip'
>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>>> opened URL
>>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>>
>>> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>
>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>>          d:\temp\RtmpqMqL8L\downloaded_packages
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>>>> ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>>>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>   Works for me.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11.04.2014 17:10, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Using install.package('XML') command produces this error:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> trying URL
>>>>>> '
>>>>>> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>>>>>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
>>>>>> '
>>>>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>>>>>> opened URL
>>>>>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>>>>>> "Type")) :
>>>>>>      cannot open the connection
>>>>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>>>>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>>>>      downloaded length 4276224 != reported length 4288136
>>>>>> 2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> 3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>>>>>> "Type"))
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>      cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
>>>>>> 'No
>>>>>> such
>>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Upon receiving this error, I downloaded XML_3.98-1.1.zip directly from
>>>>>> cran
>>>>>> site. But this zip file is not a valid archive (cannot open using
>>>>>> winzip).
>>>>>> Also trying to install using this downloaded file produces the
>>>>>> following
>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Installing package into 'C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/
>>>>>> win-library/3.0'
>>>>>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>>      error 1 in extracting from zip file
>>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>>      cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
>>>>>> 'No
>>>>>> such
>>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>>> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I  downloaded this zip file from multiple sources and tried to install
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> same result.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>


-- 
Thanks and Regards
Alpesh

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