Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306031824180.8601-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-06-03T17:30:31Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Update VR_7.1-6
In-Reply-To: <3EDCD66D.D349EA70@kfn.uni-hannover.de>
I have explained that on R-help earlier today (and when VR_7.1-4 was
announced). Please look back a few hours in the R-help postings.
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.
>
> Why?
Because VR and dse are bundles and someone broke the installation of
bundles in R 1.7.0 on Windows.
You can download and unzip the zip files in rw1070/library.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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