Cannot update.packages (error message)
Uwe, I deleted "gregmisc" from by library folder and ran update.packages() again and I still get the same error: 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
Best regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM To: Richardson, Patrick Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)
Richardson, Patrick wrote:
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?
Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed. Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages() after that? Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems? Uwe
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
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