[R] Installling source package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Most likely you have a corrupted tarball, so I would compare its size 
with that on the CRAN master (which to me looks like 680366 bytes).

Note though that you need to get XML to work on Windows

- to get appropriate versions of libxml2 and its dependencies iconv 
and zlib.
- to make changes to the XML source tarball.

So why not just use the binary provided on CRANextras?  (The changed 
sources used there are at
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/GPLcompliance/XML_2.6-0.tar.gz, but 
you will need libxml2 etc as well.)

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Steven Kang wrote:

> Hi R users,
>
> Im trying to install XML source package (in window platform) using the
> following command.
>
> *install.packages(pkgs = "C:\\Documents and
> Settings\\skang\\Desktop\\Softwares\\R\\Library\\XML_2.6-0.tar.gz", repos =
> NULL, type = "source")*
>
> and get the following result.
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> ERROR: error unpacking tarball
> Warning message:
> In install.packages(pkgs = "C:\\Documents and
> Settings\\skang\\Desktop\\SK\\Softwares\\R\\Library\\XML_2.6-0.tar.gz",  :
>  installation of package
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/skang/Desktop/SOFTWA~1/R/Library/XML_2.6-0.tar.gz' had non-zero
> exit status
> I have installed Rtools from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and
> have added 'Rtools\bin' to the environment variables path.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
>
> -- 
> Steven
>
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