Richardson, Patrick wrote:> When trying to update (various) packages using update.packages() I get the
following error message for various packages
>
> package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) :
> malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed
package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc,
BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work
again afterwards.
Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges
> This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as
others) and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick
> Win XP SP3
>
> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets tcltk utils methods
base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1 Hmisc_3.5-2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0 lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5
tools_2.9.0
>
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