[R] R 3.0.3, Windows 7: Problem installing XML package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.04.2014 01:30, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
> @Uwe I tried the same steps from office as well as home network with same
> results. Are you using windows 7 with R 3.0.3?
>
> I have seen same question being asked by others without any resolution. Is
> anything special about XML package? I am OK use older version of package
> but in archives there are no zip files (only gz files). Is windows platform
> not recommended for R?

Right, and you can try to install these from sources.
But I doubt you need it. You still have not told us if you tried another 
mirror to download the XML file from and what you local IT support tells 
you while your downloads are incomplete.

Best,
Uwe Ligges





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> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>> wrote:
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>> On 12.04.2014 22:39, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for response Uwe. I tried multiple times by downloading the zip
>>> file from many sources but still the same error. This is a major road
>>> block
>>> for me in using R. Appreciate any help on this.
>>>
>>
>> Please ask your local IT staff.
>>
>> I get, using the same mirror:
>>
>>> options("repos"=c(CRAN="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror"))
>>> install.packages("XML", lib="d:/temp")
>>
>> trying URL 'http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip'
>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>
>> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>
>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>          d:\temp\RtmpqMqL8L\downloaded_packages
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Uwe Ligges <
>>> ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>   Works for me.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11.04.2014 17:10, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Using install.package('XML') command produces this error:
>>>>>
>>>>> trying URL
>>>>> '
>>>>> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
>>>>> contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
>>>>> '
>>>>> Content type 'application/zip' length 4288136 bytes (4.1 Mb)
>>>>> opened URL
>>>>> downloaded 4.1 Mb
>>>>>
>>>>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>>>>> "Type")) :
>>>>>      cannot open the connection
>>>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>>>> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>>>>      downloaded length 4276224 != reported length 4288136
>>>>> 2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
>>>>> 3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
>>>>> :
>>>>>      cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No
>>>>> such
>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Upon receiving this error, I downloaded XML_3.98-1.1.zip directly from
>>>>> cran
>>>>> site. But this zip file is not a valid archive (cannot open using
>>>>> winzip).
>>>>> Also trying to install using this downloaded file produces the following
>>>>> error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Installing package into 'C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/win-library/3.0'
>>>>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>      error 1 in extracting from zip file
>>>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>>>      cannot open compressed file 'XML/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No
>>>>> such
>>>>> file or directory'
>>>>> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>>>>>
>>>>> I  downloaded this zip file from multiple sources and tried to install
>>>>> with
>>>>> same result.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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