Cannot update.packages (error message)
Richardson, Patrick wrote:
Uwe, I deleted "gregmisc" from by library folder and ran update.packages() again and I still get the same error: package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
I am lost where this comes from. So, can you then please grep through all DESCRIPTION files in your library for "bundle" and tell me in which DESCRIPTION files this is present. Or even better: Can you try to debug yourself from which DESCRIPTION file it comes from? I'd set options(error=recover) and then go into the unpackPkg environment and check the actual objects therein. Thank you and best wishes, uwe
Best regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM To: Richardson, Patrick Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message) Richardson, Patrick wrote:
Hi Uwe, I was able to reinstall every package you suggested except for "gregmisc" (see below) package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field I've again tried update.packages() and the ones that fail are: fBasics Matrix plm R2HTML timeSeries zoo When trying to install the above packages I receive the same error are originally reported (same as in "gregmisc"). Any ideas?
Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed. Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages() after that? Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems? Uwe
Thanks, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:01 AM To: Richardson, Patrick Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message) Richardson, Patrick wrote:
When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the following error message for various packages package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc, BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work again afterwards. Best wishes, Uwe Ligges
This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.
Any suggestions?
Best regards,
Patrick
Win XP SP3
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets tcltk utils methods base
other attached packages:
[1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1 Hmisc_3.5-2
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0 lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5 tools_2.9.0
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