Dear all, I've noticed the following problem for the past several days:
---------------- snip ---------------- > update.packages(ask=FALSE) . . . trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip' In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, : download of package 'zoo' failed ---------------- snip ---------------- Apparently, the subdirectory for the version number (/3.2) is missing from the URL. OTOH, install.packages() works fine: ---------------- snip ---------------- > install.packages("zoo") trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 878614 bytes (858 KB) opened URL downloaded 858 KB package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\John Fox\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuKqvB0\downloaded_packages ---------------- snip ---------------- Session info: ---------------- snip ---------------- > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-25 r67615) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.2.0 ---------------- snip ---------------- Best, John ------------------------------------------------------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel