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eddelbuettel / bh

R package providing Boost Header files
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failure to extract the package BH during a download as a dependency to dplyr package #13

Closed rizwanahmad closed 9 years ago

rizwanahmad commented 9 years ago

package failed to extract while trying to download as a dependency to dplyr package on R gui for windows ( 32 bit), R 3.2.0. following is the error message utils:::menuInstallPkgs() trying URL 'http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/BH_1.55.0-3.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 12472065 bytes (11.9 MB) downloaded 173 KB

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 177890 != reported length 12472065 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 'BH/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

eddelbuettel commented 9 years ago

Try a different mirror. The package gets installed all the time by autobuilders and some of us. This is guaranteed to be a local issue.