[R-sig-Geo] install of new maptools package fails

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, William McCoy wrote:

> I tried updating my installed packages on R today since the new rgeos and 
> maptools packages were out.  The update of the maptools package failed with 
> the message:
>
>> ERROR: installing package indices failed

Which system - output of sessionInfo() and other relevant details, please? 
The release has checked cleanly pre-submission on Redhat 5 x86_64, but I 
don't see the -m64 flag for my regularly configured R on compiled code. It 
checked OK on pre-release R 2.13 on 32-bit Fedora 14, and on the 
development R 2.14, without the errors you list.

We can take this offlist until it is resolved if you like.

Roger

>
> I then tried removing the old maptools package and reinstalling it with 
> depend = TRUE to be sure I had all the needed dependencies.  However it still 
> fails with:
>
>> ** building package indices ...
>> Warning: file 'gpcholes.rda' has magic number ''
>>    Use of save versions prior to 2 is deprecated
>> Error : bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data 
> loaded
>> ERROR: installing package indices failed
>> * removing ‘/usr/share/R/library/maptools’
>
>
> I'm not sure what the underlying cause is.  Can someone suggest a solution?
>
> The full text of the install.packages() output is below.
>
>
> Bill
>
>

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