Message-ID: <CA+8X3fVVCA1-ZpVt9b9cegqf7=UGcci0NxastVFGi3GSttO4Rg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2016-05-01T00:08:53Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: Issue installing packages - Linux
In-Reply-To: <CAO7OmOhi1Pag3funkd9UOv7QxkWjOPmYjcEQX_QBeSTdOAvK4Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Lars,
A mystery, but for the bodgy characters in your error message. Perhaps
there is a problem with R trying to read a different character set
from that used in the package.
Jim
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can?t seem to be able to install packages on a redhat-linux-gnu. For
> instance, this is what happens when I try to install ?bitops?. Any hint on
> what might be the issue would be much appreciated.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>
>> Sys.setenv(https_proxy="https://labproxy.com:8080")
>> install.packages("bitops", lib="mypath ")
>
> Here I choose: 22: (HTTP mirrors) and then a mirror 16:Canada(ON)
>
> * installing *source* package ?bitops? ...
> ** package ?bitops? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?bitops?
>
> I?ve also tried from the shell (after downloading the package source)
>
> $ R CMD INSTALL bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
> ERROR: cannot extract package from bitops_1.0-6.tar.gz
>
> Thank you,
> Lars.
>
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