[R-SIG-Mac] problems installing packages since upgrade to 2.4.1

[Simon Urbanek]

Ken,

On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:

> I upgraded R to 2.4.1 yesterday and I'm having problems  
> reinstalling some packages I had installed before and that I need  
> for some modeling.
>
> I've tried rgl and fBasics and I get similar error messages (see  
> below).
>
> Has anyone had luck with this?
>

This looks like a problem with the mirror - did you try another CRAN  
mirror? If in doubt, a good test is to try the master CRAN repository...

Cheers,
Simon


> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/
> 2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1610Kb
>
> Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
> 	argument is missing, with no default
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: A lone zero block at 1730
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/
> 2.4/fBasics_240.10068.1.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1412462 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1379Kb
>
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> tar: Read 10235 bytes from /tmp/RtmpyBlfBq/downloaded_packages/
> fEcofin_240.10067.tgz
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
> 	argument is missing, with no default
> In addition: Warning message:
> installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages(c("rgl"), lib = "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
> Resources/library/",
>
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