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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