Hi Picohan I had a really similar error messages recently when trying to install packages from sources and it was related to my version of windows not being in english. See this for a discussion: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Building-package-DESCRIPTION-file-not-existing-td3935084.html Cheers, Francois Rousseu
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:11:24 -0700 > From: han...@picoquant.com > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Error installing packages > > Thanks for the tip, but I am not on win 7, I am on win xp. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Re-Error-installing-packages-tp3947187p3947308.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.