R devel - Sep 2002 - install.packages() together with pixmap package (PR#2042)

Full_Name: Wolfgang Huber
Version: 1.5.1
OS: Windoof 2000
Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.62.11)


Hi,

Trying to install the binary distribution (zip file) for the "pixmap"
package,
as downloaded today from CRAN, I get the following warning "error -1".
The
package will not be installed. 
Installation of other packages (e.g. pinktoe, acepack) worked fine. The warning
or error seems to be thrown by .Internal(int.unzip).

I also tried with an external unzip programm, setting:
options(unzip="pkunzip").
This eliminates the error message, and install.packages() terminates quietly
without warnings, however also without installing anything (for all of the above
packages).

So, possibly the package pixmap is corrupted in some strange way that only
int.unzip sees?

---------------------------------------------------------------
> install.packages("D:/temp/pixmap.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN =
NULL)
updating HTML package descriptions
Warning message: 
error -1 in extracting from zip file 
------------------------------------------------------------


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w.huber@dkfz.de writes:
> So, possibly the package pixmap is corrupted in some strange way that only
> int.unzip sees?
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > install.packages("D:/temp/pixmap.zip", .libPaths()[1], CRAN
= NULL)
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message: 
> error -1 in extracting from zip file 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
I can reproduce this (with a 1.5.0 prerelease, though). I can't get a
handle on what the reason might be, but it did seem to work simply to
unzip pixmap.zip into rw1050/library. The HTML help will not be quite
perfect, but hey, there are only two functions in the package...

pixmap.zip was built with 1.3.1, so maybe a repackaging would be in
order.

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