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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