Thank you Henrik for your response. As I indicated at the end of my e-mail, I only have this problem at work, and was not be able to replicate it at home (ie packages load fine there). I followed the steps you suggested, but unfortunately no luck (below is the output). Essentially, the error messages are the same to the one shown in my initial e-mail.
I noticed that Bob Green posted a very similar request on Friday, when he had problems performing 'update packages' on a new install of 2.6.2 on Windows XP, and it was suggested that some things in the startup directories were not working. After some further investigation, I noticed that various packages that I instruct to load in my site Rprofile(I am upgrading from an older version of R), were not loading properly either, and after removing them, AND using the --internet2 option, the problem disappeared. To recap for anyone else who is experiencing a similar problem: Try starting R with the option --internet2 (to get rid of any problems with -open.connection(con, "r") : unable to resolve 'cran.r-project.org' etc), and remove any packages in the site and local Rprofile, which do not load properly (that seemed to fix the problems experienced with gzfile). Regards - Philipp > url = "http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip"; > download.file(url, basename(url), mode="wb") trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip' Error in download.file(url, basename(url), mode = "wb") : cannot open URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip' In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url, basename(url), mode = "wb") : unable to resolve 'cran.uk.r-project.org' > file.info(basename(url)) size isdir mode mtime ctime atime exe ada_2.0-1.zip 0 FALSE 666 2008-03-10 08:31:16 2008-03-10 08:20:53 2008-03-10 08:20:53 no > install.packages(basename(url), repos=NULL) Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 2: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'ada/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik Bengtsson Sent: 07 March 2008 23:47 To: Kauer, Philipp Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Problems installing packages using the inbuilt facility: "Error i n gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection" Works fine for me on the same setup. Try this and compare (especially the size of the downloaded file): > url <- > "http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip";; > download.file(url, basename(url), mode="wb") # Note "wb"!!! trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 971893 bytes (949 Kb) opened URL downloaded 949 Kb > file.info(basename(url)) size isdir mode mtime ctime ada_2.0-1.zip 971893 FALSE 666 2008-03-07 15:43:52 2008-03-07 15:43:28 atime exe ada_2.0-1.zip 2008-03-07 15:43:52 no > install.packages(basename(url), repos=NULL) package 'ada' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > library(ada) Loading required package: rpart > /Henrik On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Kauer, Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following > issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the > following problem: > > After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install > various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the > built-in menu, I run into the following error message. > > > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > trying URL > 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip > <http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ada_2.0-1.zip> ' > Content type 'application/zip' length 971893 bytes (949 Kb) opened > URL downloaded 949 Kb > > Warning in gzfile(file, "r") : > cannot open compressed file 'ada/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such > file or directory' > Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection > traceback() > 6: gzfile(file, "r") > 5: read.dcf(file.path(curPkg, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Version", > "Type")) > 4: unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2], foundpkgs[okp, 1], lib, > installWithVers) > 3: .install.winbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl, > method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir, > installWithVers = installWithVers, dependencies = dependencies) > 2: install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = NA, type = > type) > 1: utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > > I tried saving the ZIP of the package to my C drive, and then installing > from that, but I get the same error message. I then tried calling gzfile with > the filename of the ZIP directly, and I seem to get a file handle without any > error message: > > gzfile("C:/Program Files/R/R-2.6.2/library/ada_2.0-1.zip","r") > description > class > "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.6.2/library/ada_2.0-1.zip" > "gzfile" > mode > text > "rb6" > "binary" > opened > can read > "opened" > "yes" > can write > "no" > > > > It might be worth noting, that I initially I also had problems with the > internet download facility, which I fixed starting R with the flag > --internet2, as indicated in the FAQs. > > Can you please help? > > Many thanks - Philipp > > PS: I did the same on my PC at home, and there everything works without > problems. > > > > ====================================================================== > ======== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important > el...{{dropped:8}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important el...{{dropped:5}} ______________________________________________ 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.
