[R] Update VR_7.1-6

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 3 19:30:31 CEST 2003


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.

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