I have the exact same problem as you had when I customerized some package: the way I go around this is using
install.packages("~/Documents/projects/R_customerized_packages/supclust_1.0-5.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source") in which supclust_... is built from R CMD build supclust and in your case, you just need to download the package if you insist on using downloaded package. HTH, Weiwei On 1/23/07, Nüzhet Dalfes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a total newbie to R. I am using R (2.4.1) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 and > trying to install some packages using GUI Packages & Data/Package Installer > interface... > > Every time I get: > > trying URL > 'http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.4/neural_1.4.1.tgz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 18920 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 18Kb > > Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open compressed file 'neural/DESCRIPTION' > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Nüzhet Dalfes > > Istanbul Tech. Univ. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.