Hello

Reading this e-mail reminded me that I had the same problem on an old
machine :-) Just removing .Rhistory did not make it, but removing the
packages in the first lib on   .libPaths() solved it!

So thanks for the post :-)

Mat

2011/12/10 Michael Rutter <mar36@psu.edu>

>
>
> On 12/10/2011 02:00 PM, Monica Sakuray Pais wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and I have just installed R 2.14.0.
>>
>> When I try to install a package:     install.packages("SPOT")
>> it returns an error message: "Error in readRDS(file) : error reading from
>> the connection".
>>
>> Also, when I try the command in R: update.packages(), it returns the same
>> error message described previously.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Monica
>>
>
> Monica,
>
> Searches on rseek,.org and google seem to indicate this is an issue with
> the directory in which you store you packages.  I would try the following:
>
> 1.  Delete your .Rhistory and .RData files in the directory in which you
> are running R.
> 2.  Try to run an "update.packages()"
> 3.  If those fail, you may have to delete the directory in which you have
> stored your downloaded packages.  You would have to reload install them,
> but it appears to be a solution.
>
> Here is a stack overflow reference:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/6473831/readrdsfile-**in-r<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6473831/readrdsfile-in-r>
>
> Michael
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