The NEWS file in R-patched has
o Using install.packages() to install the same package to more
than one library gave an incorrect warning message.
which looks like the same thing. I've not actually seen this give an
error, but it could if there were more than one package being installed to
more than one library, as may be happening here.
Try using update.packages() on a specific library at a time -- and do read
the posting guide and remember to tell us what precisely you were doing at
the time (and that there is no version R 2.0!).
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dan Bebber wrote:
> I received the following error when I attempted to update my packages:
>
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning messages:
> 1: DESCRIPTION file of package 'file28862' missing or broken
> in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = pkgFlds)
> 2: number of columns of result
> not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 3: DESCRIPTION file of package 'file7460' missing or broken
> in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = pkgFlds)
> 4: number of columns of result
> not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 5: DESCRIPTION file of package 'file28862' missing or broken
> in: packageDescription(i, fields = "Title", lib.loc = lib)
> 6: DESCRIPTION file of package 'file7460' missing or broken
> in: packageDescription(i, fields = "Title", lib.loc = lib)
>
> I am running R 2.0 on Windows XP.
It is R >2.0.0< !!
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