It turned out that the directory where I had installed contributed packages (as defined by the environment variable R_LIB) was damaged, though it was not revealed by the usual disk maintenance tools (chkdsk, etc). I deleted it and created a new one, and everything looks fine now.
Renaud 2009/2/20 Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lance...@gmail.com> > Still searching what's going on.... In fact, I can download manually any > package and install it. The problem occurs when updating the html files. I > can reproduce it with this: > > > link.html.help() > Error in .readRDS(pfile) : unknown input format > > traceback() > 5: .readRDS(pfile) > 4: .packages(all.available = TRUE, lib.loc = lib) > 3: sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE, lib.loc = lib)) > 2: make.packages.html(lib.loc) > 1: link.html.help() > > Any hint ? > > Renaud > > > 2009/2/20 Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lance...@gmail.com> > > I met today a computer crash and our maintenance officer had to reinstall >> some components of the OS (MS Windows XP Pro) as well as the Internet >> browser (among other things). Now, I cannot install packages from a distant >> repository: >> >> > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() >> Error in .readRDS(pfile) : unknown input format >> > traceback() >> 5: .readRDS(pfile) >> 4: .packages(all.available = TRUE) >> 3: .install.winbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl, >> method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir, >> installWithVers = installWithVers, dependencies = dependencies, >> ...) >> 2: install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = NA, type = type) >> 1: utils:::menuInstallPkgs() >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-02-17 r47956) >> i386-pc-mingw32 >> >> locale: >> >> LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252;LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252;LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=French_France.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] fortunes_1.3-6 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_2.8.1 >> >> ********************************************* >> >> My browser and e-mail client are working, and I can display the list of >> packages when I run utils:::menuInstallPkgs(). >> >> Did anybody meet the same problem, and how can I solve it ? >> >> Renaud >> -- >> Renaud Lancelot >> EDEN Project, coordinator >> http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ >> >> UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes" >> Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases" >> >> CIRAD >> Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B >> F34398 Montpellier >> http://www.cirad.fr http://bluetongue.cirad.fr/ >> >> Tel. +33 4 67 59 37 17 - Fax +33 4 67 59 37 95 >> Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37 - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69 >> >> > > > -- > Renaud Lancelot > EDEN Project, coordinator > http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ > > UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes" > Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases" > > CIRAD > Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B > F34398 Montpellier > http://www.cirad.fr http://bluetongue.cirad.fr/ > > Tel. +33 4 67 59 37 17 - Fax +33 4 67 59 37 95 > Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37 - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69 > > -- Renaud Lancelot EDEN Project, coordinator http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes" Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases" CIRAD Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B F34398 Montpellier http://www.cirad.fr http://bluetongue.cirad.fr/ Tel. +33 4 67 59 37 17 - Fax +33 4 67 59 37 95 Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37 - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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