Re: [R] Installing R, R packages

2013-09-24 Thread Simon Zehnder
Had yesterday something pretty similar on the 73 installing benchmark: Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) : incomplete block on file The downloaded source packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/n9/zxfxcd01557dc06bf3c1njy0gn/T/RtmpkwQyuQ/downloaded_packages’

Re: [R] Installing R, R packages

2013-09-24 Thread David Winsemius
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 on

Re: [R] Installing R, R packages

2013-09-23 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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.

[R] Installing R, R packages

2013-09-23 Thread David Arnold
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: Truncat