R help - Mar 2007 - Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

Hi all,

I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working
down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI.  The package would not
install and I got the following message:

"trying URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : 
        cannot open URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' 
Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  : 
         download of package 'sp' failed"

I tried to find the installation file "sp_0.9-10.zip" through
the CRAN website, but was unable to do so.  So I was wondering if there was some
other way to get this package I need.  Or perhaps  there might be some problem
with the website itself.

Thanks,

Gaurav Ghosh
Graduate Student,

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,

311 Armsby Building,

Pennsylvania State University,

University Park, PA 16802

Ph:  814-865-1128


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On 3/30/2007 2:39 PM, Gaurav Ghosh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp'
working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI.  The package would
not install and I got the following message:
> 
> "trying URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode =
"wb") :
>         cannot open URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' 
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, 
:
>          download of package 'sp' failed"
> 
> I tried to find the installation file "sp_0.9-10.zip"
through the CRAN website, but was unable to do so.  So I was wondering if there
was some other way to get this package I need.  Or perhaps  there might be some
problem with the website itself.

You didn't say which mirror you were using, but it looks like a problem 
there.  I just tried from one of the Canadian mirrors and there was no 
problem finding the package.

Duncan Murdoch