[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Steven L. Scott > Version: 2.2.1 > OS: Windows-Cygwin > Submission from: (NULL) (128.125.60.50) > > > I've had problems unpacking the R source coded downloaded from > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.1.tar.gz
This is not a bug in R!!! The Statlib mirror is known to be broken. Please download from another mirror. Please check the archives before submitting a bug report! Uwe Ligges > Version info for tar and gunzip provided below (GNU legalese edited out), > along > with the error messages I get. > Thanks. > Steve > > /notcygwin[506] gunzip --version > gunzip 1.3.5 > (2002-09-30) > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation > Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly > Compilation options: > DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT > ASMV > Written by Jean-loup Gailly. > > /notcygwin[507] tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. > > /notcygwin[508] gunzip R-2.2.1.tar.gz > R-2.2.1.tar.gz: 0.2% -- replaced with R-2.2.1.tar > > /notcygwin[509] tar xf R-2.2.1.tar > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
