R help - Nov 2003 - file not found?

Kenneth  -

I recall a message on the [r-pkgs] list from Ray Brownrigg
on November 1 this year that may be relevant.  At that time
he was announcing the availability of  maps_2.0-8.zip  and
some other packages.

Therefore,  2.0-10 must be *very* recent and might still be
going through the CRAN propagation process.  (I don't know
anything about whther it is or not.)  I would wait a couple
of days and try again, if I were you.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
> Hi R maintainers:
>
> when I use
>  update.packages()
>
> And I try to update the package "maps"
>
> maps :
>  Version 2.0-9 in D:/rw1080/library
>  Version 2.0-10 on CRAN
> Update (y/N)?  y
>
> The following message appears:
>
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>         cannot open URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found'
>
> All the rest of packages work fine.
>
> I use R 1.8.0 on W2K platform.
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Kenneth
>
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>
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Hi R maintainers:

when I use
 update.packages()

And I try to update the package "maps"

maps :
 Version 2.0-9 in D:/rw1080/library
 Version 2.0-10 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  y

The following message appears:

trying URL 
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
        cannot open URL 
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found'

All the rest of packages work fine.

I use R 1.8.0 on W2K platform.

Thank you for your help

Kenneth

-- 
Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
Celular +57 (315) 405 9339

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 20:27, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
> Hi R maintainers:
> 
> when I use
>  update.packages()
> 
> And I try to update the package "maps"
> 
> maps :
>  Version 2.0-9 in D:/rw1080/library
>  Version 2.0-10 on CRAN
> Update (y/N)?  y
> 
> The following message appears:
> 
> trying URL 
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>         cannot open URL 
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/maps_2.0-10.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found'
> 
> All the rest of packages work fine.
> 
> I use R 1.8.0 on W2K platform.
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> Kenneth

You might want to read through:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/

Version 2.0-10 was just posted to CRAN on 2003-11-13. It is possible
that the process to generate the Windows zip file has not yet completed
or there is a problem with the package not passing Rcmd check.

Hence the R 1.8.0 Windows version of the file is not yet on the site,
which is why you are getting the error. 

The new version is on CRAN for R 1.7.x dated 14-Nov-2003, thus it may be
that there is an issue with the package under 1.8.0. that requires
resolution by the package maintainer.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Thomas W Blackwell <tblackw at umich.edu> wrote:
> I recall a message on the [r-pkgs] list from Ray Brownrigg
> on November 1 this year that may be relevant.  At that time
> he was announcing the availability of  maps_2.0-8.zip  and
> some other packages.
> 
> Therefore,  2.0-10 must be *very* recent and might still be
> going through the CRAN propagation process.  (I don't know
> anything about whther it is or not.)  I would wait a couple
> of days and try again, if I were you.
> 
Well, actually, 2.0-10 in source form is on CRAN since last week, but
for some reason only in the 1.7/ directory in the Windows area.  I just
this morning noticed this and sent a message to the Windows CRAN
maintainer.

In the meantime, 2.0-11 has been uploaded, probably to appear in a few
days (no noticeable changes).

Ray Brownrigg