Back again, just tried at work (through a proxy, same R version, "should be" same Debian Linux version = Debian Testing recently updated but one on a Macbook computer (at home, does not work), the other on a Desktop PC (at work, works flawlessly)).
Will try to investigate further... Majid, did you locate the source of your problem ? Thanks. Olivier. -Le Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:32:36 +0200, Olivier Crouzet a écrit : > Dear all, > > I receive the very same error message on a Debian computer (testing) > with R 2.13.0 also. > > > install.packages('emu') > Installing package(s) into > ‘/home/olivier/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ (as ‘lib’ is > unspecified) > Error in ret[i, ] <- c(pkgs[i], lib, desc) : > number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length > > I have no proxy settings on this computer (neither > in .bashrc / .bash_profile, nor in my desktop environment, and I'm > doing it at home where I'm not using any proxy). > > I can download a file on the web from within R (using both > download.file () or download.packages > ('emu','/home/olivier/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13')... and > finally I can also use install.packages() on this downloaded file and > the install works flawlessly. > > I can't find any old R base package in the various directories > indicated by .libPaths(). > > > .libPaths() > [1] "/home/olivier/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13" > [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" > [4] "/usr/lib/R/library" > > The only place where I can think there may be one are the local trees > ([1] and [2]) as the 2 others are (should be) updated automatically > when updating R with the Debian pkg mngmt system and there's nothing > inside them. Only [4] contains a base/ subdirectory (a single one) > but I suppose this is the current one for R 2.13.0 > > I can install a package once it's been downloaded locally (through R > CMD INSTALL pkg) but can't succeed in installing the same package > from the CRAN mirrors using install.packages(). I experience the very > same issue with all related instructions (old.packages(), > update.packages()) > > I also could do that several months ago on a different Debian computer > (but with an older R version than the current one). > > Any hints (including what kind of information I should give to enhance > the description of this issue)? > > Olivier. > > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:29:17 +0200 Uwe Ligges > <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > If the internet connection from R works, can you please verify that > > you do not have any R base package from an old R version in a > > current R library that you may have in the .libPaths() already? > > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > > On 20.04.2011 09:25, Majid Einian wrote: > > > Dear R Helpers, > > > (I am using Ubuntu lucid and R 2.13.0 > > > When I try to update packages I get this error: > > > > > >> update.packages() > > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > > > Error in ret[i, ]<- c(pkgs[i], lib, desc) : > > > number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement > > > length > > > > > > I had no problem before (case 1) but now (case 2) I cannot get it > > > to work, googleing did not help: > > > case 1: > > > * connecting directly without any proxy setting (at my > > > university) > > > * using R 2.12.2 > > > case 2: > > > * connecting through proxy setting (at my workplace) > > > * using R 2.13.0 > > > > > > I set the proxy in terminal too but it does not help (echo > > > $http_proxy gives me http://192.168.0.1:8080/) > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, > > minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Olivier Crouzet, PhD Laboratoire de Linguistique -- EA3827 Département de Sciences du Langage UFR Lettres et Langages Université de Nantes Chemin de la Censive du Tertre - BP 81227 44312 Nantes cedex 3 France phone: (+33) 02 40 14 14 05 (lab.) (+33) 02 40 14 14 36 (office) fax: (+33) 02 40 14 13 27 e-mail: olivier.crou...@univ-nantes.fr http://www.lling.fr/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.