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Cannot update.packages (error message)

Richardson, Patrick 
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?

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:
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

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