Dear Dan and Henrik, Yes -- thanks. I discovered that earlier today.
Best, John > -----Original Message----- > From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dan > Tenenbaum > Sent: January-27-15 1:25 PM > To: Henrik Bengtsson > Cc: John Fox; R-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on > Windows > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> > > To: "John Fox" <j...@mcmaster.ca> > > Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel@r-project.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:15:36 AM > > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on > Windows > > > > 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) > > > > Indeed. I've closed PR#16172. > > Dan > > > > /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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel