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Cant Install Swirl #720

Open raaj945 opened 6 years ago

raaj945 commented 6 years ago

I am using windows xp 7 and installed R i386 3.5.1 ,but not able to install Swirl in R (R console 32-bit) install.packages("swirl") and getting below error

it also says Swirl is not available for version 3.5.1

Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open compressed file 'curl/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

vickyfx2002 commented 5 years ago

Yes, I ma having the same problem with R 3.5.1

vickyfx2002 commented 5 years ago

I just closed the R console and restarted it. Then I was able to install swirl after picking a CRAN near me. Not sure why, but it is working now.

felixrm1971 commented 5 years ago

I have same problem... says swirl is not available for R 3.5.1... let me try restarting.... What mirror to use?

felixrm1971 commented 5 years ago

I restarted console and pick mirror uSA TX and it is working