Re: [R] unable to install XML package on Windows7

2013-12-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, on Windows binary packages are available on CRAN. And get the source package from CRAN, not Omegahat. CRAN has had to apply corrections to get package XML to work on Windows. That said, http://www.omegahat.org/R/src/contrib/XML_3.98-1.tar.gz downloads and unpacks for me, so the problem

[R] unable to install XML package on Windows7

2013-12-16 Thread Wasili Goutas
Hi, I try to install the XML package, but unfortunatelly I get an erroron uncompressing it 'Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) : incomplete block on file' I tried it manually using WinZip and tra in a Cygwin shell and get also errors there. gzip: stdin: unexpected e