On 20/04/2014, 2:45 PM, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
I keep on trying from various networks but I still get the same error. I
don't this this has anything to do with network or ability to download the
package (as I can install other packages fine). This must be something in
base R or dependencies issues (that R is not spelling out).
This is very clearly a problem with your setup, not with R: nobody else
is reporting it.
What you should do is download the .zip file using some other means
(e.g. Firefox, etc.) and check whether the size comes out properly
(4,288,694 bytes; not sure why you saw the numbers you saw). If it
does, then install the package from the .zip file. If it doesn't, then
tell your IT people to fix your system.
Duncan Murdoch
I know R is geared for Mac and Windows is kind of looked down upon but I
have no option but use windows and need this XML package running to
complete my education. Any help on this would be appreciated.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Alpesh Pandya <alpeshpan...@gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you for response Rui.
I still get the same error with this repository.
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/APandya/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL '
http://cran.dcc.fc.up.pt/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'
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>wrote:
Hello,
I have package XML installed on Windows 7, R 3.0.3 and I had no problem
at all. Can't you try (it worked with me)
install.packages("XML", repos = "http://cran.dcc.fc.up.pt";)
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 14-04-2014 16:24, Alpesh Pandya escreveu:
I have tried these sources (almost all US mirrors):
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/
3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/
contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/XML_3.98-1.1.zip
I have confirmed with IT that there is no restriction on downloading this
zip file from any of these sources. Also I am getting same error when I
try
from my home network as well.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Uwe Ligges <
lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
wrote:
On 13.04.2014 01:30, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
@Uwe I tried the same steps from office as well as home network with
same
results. Are you using windows 7 with R 3.0.3?
I have seen same question being asked by others without any
resolution. Is
anything special about XML package? I am OK use older version of
package
but in archives there are no zip files (only gz files). Is windows
platform
not recommended for R?
Right, and you can try to install these from sources.
But I doubt you need it. You still have not told us if you tried another
mirror to download the XML file from and what you local IT support tells
you while your downloads are incomplete.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Uwe Ligges <
lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
wrote:
On 12.04.2014 22:39, Alpesh Pandya wrote:
Thank you for response Uwe. I tried multiple times by downloading
the
zip
file from many sources but still the same error. This is a major road
block
for me in using R. Appreciate any help on this.
Please ask your local IT staff.
I get, using the same mirror:
options("repos"=c(CRAN="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror";))
install.packages("XML", lib="d:/temp")
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
package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
d:\temp\RtmpqMqL8L\downloaded_packages
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Uwe Ligges <
lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
wrote:
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.
--
Thanks and Regards
Alpesh
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