[R] Problem updating mgcv package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Arin Basu wrote:

> I tried to update the package mgcv from my current version 1.1-8 to mgcv 
> version 1.2. Using the command update.packages("mgcv") to update mgcv 
> failed in my computer and the returning message was:
>
> "Error in old.packages(lib.loc=lib.loc, contriburl=contriburl, 
> method=method, :no installed.packages for (?invalid) lib.loc=mgcv"
>
> When I typed installed.packages(), I got the following information
>
> libpath = "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" for the installed package "mgcv".
>
> My next error was when I typed
> update.packages("mgcv",lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library").
> It returned the error message,
>
> "error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep="/"), :unsupported URL scheme"
>
> What should I do to correctly update this package?

Either update.packages() or install.packages("mgcv")

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