On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I have stopped using the Berkeley mirror, and just automatically use
UCLA due to missing packages. However, I feel no compulsion to
extrapolate and say that there is "some sort of corruption going on
at CRAN mirrors" because it is only one data point.
I have not been having this sort of difficulty with the Berkeley
mirror. Never have seen this particular error. Occasionally see the
mirror down on a weekend, but that happens with all mirrors. (I do use
Berkeley as my standard mirror and I do download a relatively large
number of packages especially at the point where I call
`update.packages`.)
--
David.
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
David Arnold <dwarnol...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
All,
Consider this attempt:
install.packages("car")
trying URL
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/car_2.0-19.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1326903 bytes (1.3 Mb)
opened URL
==========================================
downloaded 1.1 Mb
car/data/Rdata.rdb: Truncated tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/qE/qEavkZWTFMmxjncuY+HnqE+++TI/-Tmp-//Rtmpnxi1hV/
downloaded_packages
Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
downloaded length 1126960 != reported length 1326903
2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1
This seems to be happening frequently at the cran berkeley site. I've
also
had students try to install R from the Berkeley site and it just
doesn't
work for them.
I had another student tell me today he tried all sorts of mirrors and
could
not get R and knitr installed until he tried the Washington site.
Is there some sort of corruption going on at the CRAN mirrors?
D.
David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA
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