similar to: Cannot update.packages (error message)

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 > This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others)

I'm trying to update my Matrix package given the update last night. But the following error is generated. I've tried restarting R and deleting my old Matrix package. Can anyone suggest how this might be resolved? > install.packages('Matrix') trying URL 'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/Mat rix_0.98-1.zip' Content type

After entering ?library(rpart)?, I tried to plot an existing rpart tree, and got this error message: Error: couldn't find function "plot.rpart". However, ??plot.rpart? does bring up the help for the function. The same things occur for text.rpart, although print(my.tree) does work. So, I tried to re-install rpart using Packages | Install from CRAN, but then I get this

Full_Name: michael cole Version: 1.9.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (80.219.153.13) When trying to install lattice graphics... I receieve the following: trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/lattice_0.9-16.zip' Content type `application/zip' length 496618 bytes opened URL downloaded 484Kb package 'lattice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums

Hi, I have installed R 1.9.0 under Windows XP. When I used "Packages->Install Package(s) from CRAN..." to install the package 'gregmisc', I got this message: > local({a <- CRAN.packages() + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)}) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain;

Hi I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem: After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the built-in menu, I run into the following error message. >

Dear all, i was working under R 1.6.2 but i wanted to install bioconductor under WinXP, and because R 1.7.1 contains the TclTk package and automatic installation of bioconductor packages, so i install it. Everything is fine except this message which appear after the installation of packages. "> local({a<- CRAN.packages(CRAN=getOption("BIOC")) +

The file src/library/base/R/print.R contains this line: x0 <- xm[okP]==0 != (as.numeric(Cf[okP])==0) I didn't know R allowed that, and I wonder if it is deliberate? In mathematics, you would expect x = y not= z to mean (x = y) and (y not= z).; In R, it is parsed as (x == y) != z. While I have to admit that the spacing around == and != in

I have submitted this as a bug (http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trac/Hmisc/ticket/29) but I am wondering if anyone else has seen it or perhaps developed a workaround. I could certainly fix the LaTeX by hand, but I am using this inside Sweave, so it is a bit cumbersome. The exact same code used to work fine, but something changed underneath it. Even so, perhaps I am using the latex() command

I was using summarize() in a data set in which one of the levels of the by variable was "". The summary statistic was consistently off by one level and the "" level was not in the output data frame. I tried to report it as a bug, but I could not log into the Hmisc bug reporting website to do so. I searched for this in the email archives. If it's there, I failed to find

Hi, I'm using rw2000dev.exe (Win32) built on August 14. If this isn't already planned, can I suggest that when checkS3methods() (called by R CMD check) fails because of a syntax error in a dependent package listed in the DESCRIPTION file of the main package being checked, it would be nice if checkS3methods() reported which dependent package caused it to fail? Running R CMD check on my

Hello, when trying to write an R-file, which automatically installs and updates a given list of packages, I had two problems with install.packages() 1) install.packages("<package>") will install <package>, no matter if <package> has already been installed. 2) the readline() at the end of install.packages, which asks the user, if the downloaded files should be

Howdy- I recently upgraded to R 2.9.1 and did the updates for all of my packages. A few of them now *suggest* the TZ variable to be set, which I did: > Sys.getenv("TZ") TZ "" > Sys.setenv(TZ="America/New_York") > Sys.getenv("TZ") TZ "America/New_York" Next up: library(RODBC) library(quantmod) channel <-

Dear useRs, Lately I noticed a strange warning in the summary of a lm-object. Any idea what this warning is about? I'm using R 2.5.1 on Win XP pro. > x <- rnorm(100) > y <- rnorm(100) > summary(lm(y~x)) Call: lm(formula = y ~ x) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -1,77809 -0,68438 -0,04409 0,63891 2,30863 Coefficients: Estimate Std.

Dear Christian, Every single time check update package, ?cwhmisc? always requests updating. I?m aware that the package was latest updated in CRAN on 20Nov2008. Is there anything wrong with my R library or somethingelse? I use R 2.8.1 on Window XP service pack 2 Regards Nguyen Garvan Institute of Medical Research Sydney, Australia

Dear UseR, I do not know if this a problem with me, my data or cph/survest in package design. The example below works with a standard data set, but not with my data, but I cannot locate the problem. Note that I am using an older package of survival to avoid a problem with the newly renamed function in survival meeting Design. Dieter # First, check standard example to make sure library(Design)

I am having a problem using two DLLs with the same name, but obviously located in different directories, in an R session. The troublesome package is the (Bioconductor) Rgraphviz package. It relies on (3rd party software) graphviz and imports functions from (Bioconductor) package graph. Unfortunately, the current stable release of graphviz for Windows

Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent. For example, the logical arguments comes in seven different formats, more or less explicit about the consequences of a TRUE (or FALSE): 1. check.names logical. If TRUE then the names... 2. blank.lines.skip logical: if TRUE blank lines... 3. flush logical: if TRUE,

This was working a few weeks ago, but perhaps the package has been updated since then. model.1 <- lrm(response ~ p_value, data=c_abl_oncogene_1_RTK) When I run the following command . . . . prediction.1 <- predict(model.1, type=c("fitted")) I get the following error message. . . . Error in predictDesign(object, ..., type = "lp", se.fit = FALSE) : could not find

The following seems to me to be at least a perverse trap, if not an = outright bug: > is.numeric(unit(1,"npc")) [1] TRUE > is.numeric(1*unit(1,"npc")) [1] FALSE > is.numeric(unit(0,"npc") +unit(1,"npc")) [1] FALSE ...etc. i.e. is.numeric() appears to be TRUE for class "unit" but false for = class ("unit.arithmetic"