Richardson, Patrick wrote:
Hi Uwe,
I was able to reinstall every package you suggested except for "gregmisc" (see
below)
package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :
malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
I've again tried update.packages() and the ones that fail are:
fBasics
Matrix
plm
R2HTML
timeSeries
zoo
When trying to install the above packages I receive the same error are originally
reported (same as in "gregmisc").
Any ideas?
Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed.
Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages()
after that?
Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your
library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems?
Uwe
Thanks,
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:01 AM
To: Richardson, Patrick
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message)
Richardson, Patrick wrote:
When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the
following error message for various packages
package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :
malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed
package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc,
BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work
again afterwards.
Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges
This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others)
and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.
Any suggestions?
Best regards,
Patrick
Win XP SP3
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets tcltk utils methods base
other attached packages:
[1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1 Hmisc_3.5-2
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0 lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5 tools_2.9.0
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