jotero@lsi.uniovi.es wrote:
Full_Name: Jos? Otero Version: Version 1.5.0 (2002-04-29) OS: Redhat 7.3 Submission from: (NULL) (192.187.16.164) Hi: Installation of package faraway as root, from tarbal: R CMD INSTALL ./faraway.tar.gz ERROR: cannot extract package from './faraway.tar.gz' idem, from zipped package: R CMD INSTALL faraway.zip gzip: faraway.zip has more than one entry--rest ignored ERROR: cannot extract package from 'faraway.zip' It seems to WORK if the package is untared FIRST but not from the compressed file. It is of course a minor bug. Many thanks. Follow explanation... The files seem to be ok: file faraway.* faraway.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, `faraway.tar', last modified: Mon May 5 21:35:19 2003, os: Unix faraway.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract unzip -l faraway.zip Archive: faraway.zip
[snipped huge amount of garbage] This is not a bug in R!!! Why do you think so? 1) faraway.tar.gz is not from CRAN, so please refer to it appropriately. 2) It looks like the package is inappropriately packaged, so it's presumably a bug in that package, not in R. 3) R-1.5.0 is completely outdated (we are two major versions later these days). Please check a recent version before sending bug reports. Uwe Ligges