[R] problem with package binaries

[Renaud Lancelot]

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    5.0            
year     2002           
month    04             
day      29             
language R   

OS Win98

I have problems to install some of the packages dowloaded from CRAN
(whatever the procedure: install from CRAN or from local zip file). I
noticed this today, while running update.packages().

> install.packages("G:/Zip/R/1.5.0/Contrib/chron.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
Error in zip.unpack(pkg, lib) : cannot open file
E:/PROGRAMS/RW1050/library/chron/libs/chron.dll

I meet the same problem with lattice (and others), but it works
sometimes e.g.:
> install.packages("G:/Zip/R/1.5.0/Contrib/mgcv.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
updating HTML package descriptions

If I manually delete the library before installing it, it works again:
> install.packages("G:/Zip/R/1.5.0/Contrib/chron.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL)
updating HTML package descriptions

The problem does not seem to be related to R versions incompatibility
(Rwin FAQ 3.5). For example, with package chron, the content of the
DESCRIPTION file is:
Package: chron
Version: 2.2-21
Author: S original by David James <dj at research.bell-labs.com>,
  R port by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
Maintainer: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: Chronological objects which can handle dates and times
Title: Chronological objects which can handle dates and times
Depends: R (>= 1.2.0)
License: GPL
Built: R 1.5.0;  Win32;  2002-05-04 10:00:30

Is this a problem witb my OS or something else ?

Tnanks,

Renaud



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