R help - May 2008 - Installing Packages in Windows Vista -- YES I tried Run as Administrator

I'm having trouble installing packages in Windows Vista.  It's driving
me
nuts.
I read all the threads and I have tried the following:

1) Right click on R and Run as Administrator
2) Turn off User Account Control
3) Toss machine across room (OK haven't tried this one yet, but I'm
close)

Here is the R error messages I am getting

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL
'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/boot_1.2-32.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 777751 bytes (759 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 32 Kb

Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
  downloaded length 33219 != reported length 777751
2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
3: In gzfile(file, "r") :
  cannot open compressed file 'boot/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
'No such
file or directory'

Can anybody help?  My presentation is in 14 hours and right now I'm thin on
results.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

-- Scotty
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Your issue is a corrupt download.  Try another CRAN mirror.

In any case, the current version of R includes that version of boot, so
you need to update (before posting, as the posting guide asked you to).

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Scotty Nelson wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble installing packages in Windows Vista.  It's
driving me
> nuts.
> I read all the threads and I have tried the following:
>
> 1) Right click on R and Run as Administrator
> 2) Turn off User Account Control
> 3) Toss machine across room (OK haven't tried this one yet, but I'm
close)
>
> Here is the R error messages I am getting
>
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/boot_1.2-32.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 777751 bytes (759 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 32 Kb
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>  downloaded length 33219 != reported length 777751
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you not see that?
> 2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 3: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>  cannot open compressed file 'boot/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
'No such
> file or directory'
>
> Can anybody help?  My presentation is in 14 hours and right now I'm
thin on
> results.
>
> THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
>
> -- Scotty
> -- 
> View this message in context:
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Hi Scotty,

Can't give an answer from what you've provided, but one temp.
work-around
that might work is to get onto CRAN -- packages and download the packages
you need from your web browser as zip files, then do an "Install package(s)
from local zip files..." from the Packages menu.

HTH, Mark.


Scotty Nelson wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble installing packages in Windows Vista.  It's
driving me
> nuts.
> I read all the threads and I have tried the following:
> 
> 1) Right click on R and Run as Administrator
> 2) Turn off User Account Control
> 3) Toss machine across room (OK haven't tried this one yet, but I'm
close)
> 
> Here is the R error messages I am getting
> 
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/boot_1.2-32.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 777751 bytes (759 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 32 Kb
> 
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
>   downloaded length 33219 != reported length 777751
> 2: In zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 3: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>   cannot open compressed file 'boot/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
'No such
> file or directory'
> 
> Can anybody help?  My presentation is in 14 hours and right now I'm
thin
> on results.
> 
> THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
> 
> -- Scotty
> 
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