Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0306031020270.23688-100000@homer13.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2003-06-03T17:21:50Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Update VR_7.1-6
In-Reply-To: <3EDCD66D.D349EA70@kfn.uni-hannover.de>
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote:
> The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages
> (from local zip files) fails with the following error message:
>
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION'
>
> Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1
> with a similar error message.
>
Because there is a bug in the handling of package bundles in R 1.7.0. VR
and dse are bundles. R1.7.1 will be coming out soon and fixes this. Or you
can manually unzip the bundle in the appropriate place in the library
directory.
-thomas