Windows binary for R 1.6.1 FIXED

I just downloaded rw1061.exe from CRAN and got an error message when
installing it: "lapack.dll is corrupted". Never got this kind of message
before. Did anyone meet this problem (it takes me an hour to download
the file: I am slightly reluctant to try again before being sure the
problem does not come from the archive).

Best,

Renaud

I just downloaded rw1061.exe from CRAN and got an error message when
installing it: "lapack.dll is corrupted". Never got this kind of message
before. Did anyone meet this problem (it takes me an hour to download
the file: I am slightly reluctant to try again before being sure the
problem does not come from the archive).

Best,

Renaud

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

To Windows R users:

The binary build of R that I uploaded on Tuesday contained errors in
the compiled HTML help files and some of the PDF versions of the
manuals.  In particular, the index was missing from the CHM files, and
the table of contents was missing from at least one of the manuals.

I've since found the error in my setup, and have rebuilt the
distribution.  I uploaded it to CRAN this afternoon; it will likely
propagate to all of the mirrors over the weekend.

Before you download it, please make sure that you see the note on the
download page about the correction (otherwise you may be downloading
the original version).

The URL is <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base>.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused.

Duncan Murdoch
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I just downloaded rw1061.exe from CRAN and got an error message when
installing it: "lapack.dll is corrupted". Never got this kind of message
before. Did anyone meet this problem (it takes me an hour to download
the file: I am slightly reluctant to try again before being sure the
problem does not come from the archive).

[mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 8:48 PM
To: Renaud Lancelot
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Re: Windows binary for R 1.6.1 FIXED


On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 21:02:47 +0000, you wrote:

I just downloaded rw1061.exe from CRAN and got an error message when 
installing it: "lapack.dll is corrupted". Never got this kind of 
message before. Did anyone meet this problem (it takes me an hour to 
download the file: I am slightly reluctant to try again before being 
sure the problem does not come from the archive).

This is probably a problem with your download (unless you got 
it from a mirror that somehow has a corrupted copy).  

I have heard from 3 other people about errors with the 
downloaded version.  In the one case that I followed up with 
most closely, it was a bad download.

To help diagnose problems like this, I've put files 
containing checksums online. They should be visible tomorrow.

To use them, download md5sum.txt from the main directory (for
rw1061.exe) or from the mini directory (for all the mini*.* 
files). Then find a copy of md5sum.exe and (while in the 
directory containing the downloads) run

  md5sum --check md5sum.txt

This will almost certainly detect any download errors.

I'm working on finding a copy of md5sum.exe that I can also 
make available for download for people who don't already have 
a copy.  

For what it's worth, all the other 3 examples of people who 
had download problems were using Windows 2000, but I've also 
heard of people using Win2K who had no problems.  I don't 
know the cause yet.

Duncan Murdoch

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 21:02:47 +0000, you wrote:

I just downloaded rw1061.exe from CRAN and got an error message when
installing it: "lapack.dll is corrupted". Never got this kind of message
before. Did anyone meet this problem (it takes me an hour to download
the file: I am slightly reluctant to try again before being sure the
problem does not come from the archive).

This is probably a problem with your download (unless you got it from
a mirror that somehow has a corrupted copy).

I have heard from 3 other people about errors with the downloaded
version.  In the one case that I followed up with most closely, it was
a bad download.

To help diagnose problems like this, I've put files containing
checksums online. They should be visible tomorrow.

To use them, download md5sum.txt from the main directory (for
rw1061.exe) or from the mini directory (for all the mini*.* files).
Then find a copy of md5sum.exe and (while in the directory containing
the downloads) run

  md5sum --check md5sum.txt

This will almost certainly detect any download errors.

I'm working on finding a copy of md5sum.exe that I can also make
available for download for people who don't already have a copy.

For what it's worth, all the other 3 examples of people who had
download problems were using Windows 2000, but I've also heard of
people using Win2K who had no problems.  I don't know the cause yet.

Duncan Murdoch

There is a Windows version of md5sum available at:

http://www.md5summer.org/

This is the version listed at LinuxISO.org.

There is another available at:

http://www.etree.org/md5com.html