The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 with a similar error message. Why? Operating System: Windows NT (4.0) R Version: R 1.7.0 ************************************************* Dr. Dirk Enzmann Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony Luetzerodestr. 9 D-30161 Hannover Germany phone: +49-511-348.36.32 fax: +49-511-348.36.10 email: ENZMANN at KFN.uni-hannover.de http://www.kfn.de
Update VR_7.1-6
5 messages · Dirk Enzmann, Thomas Lumley, Gavin Simpson +2 more
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote:
The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 with a similar error message.
Because there is a bug in the handling of package bundles in R 1.7.0. VR and dse are bundles. R1.7.1 will be coming out soon and fixes this. Or you can manually unzip the bundle in the appropriate place in the library directory. -thomas
Hi Dirk, dse and VR are bundles or packages. There is a bug in rw1070 in the way it installs bundles. Download the zip file directly and unzip it to the library directory in wherever R is installed on your system. This has been discussed recently (this morning) on the list. Search the archives to read more. G
Dirk Enzmann wrote:
The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 with a similar error message. Why? Operating System: Windows NT (4.0) R Version: R 1.7.0 ************************************************* Dr. Dirk Enzmann Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony Luetzerodestr. 9 D-30161 Hannover Germany phone: +49-511-348.36.32 fax: +49-511-348.36.10 email: ENZMANN at KFN.uni-hannover.de http://www.kfn.de
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I have explained that on R-help earlier today (and when VR_7.1-4 was announced). Please look back a few hours in the R-help postings.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote:
The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 with a similar error message. Why?
Because VR and dse are bundles and someone broke the installation of bundles in R 1.7.0 on Windows. You can download and unzip the zip files in rw1070/library.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
I have explained that on R-help earlier today (and when VR_7.1-4 was announced). Please look back a few hours in the R-help postings. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote:
The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 with a similar error message. Why?
Because VR and dse are bundles and someone broke the installation of bundles in R 1.7.0 on Windows. You can download and unzip the zip files in rw1070/library.
The CRAN maintainers also got first messages from users who didn't know about this bug. In order to avoid a huge amount of further questions and bug reports related to these problems, I decided to move the two package bundles from CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7 to a subfolder until R-1.7.1 will be released. Please read CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/ReadMe for details. The change presumably will show up on CRAN master within 24 hours. Uwe Ligges