It works again using: % R --version R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-26 r67627) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
/Henrik On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:54 AM, John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
