Message-ID: <9A6509A94A33124187515A9901DC551F0B5349C886@VAIEXCH05.vai.org>
Date: 2009-04-28T14:21:28Z
From: Richardson, Patrick
Subject: Cannot update.packages (error message)
In-Reply-To: <49F70C34.1070907@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
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:
> 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
>
> This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:15}}