Hi Uwe, I was able to reinstall every package you suggested except for "gregmisc" (see below)
package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2L], foundpkgs[okp, 1L], lib) : malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field I've again tried update.packages() and the ones that fail are: fBasics Matrix plm R2HTML timeSeries zoo When trying to install the above packages I receive the same error are originally reported (same as in "gregmisc"). Any ideas? Thanks, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:01 AM To: Richardson, Patrick Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message) Richardson, Patrick wrote: > 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 Can you try to reinstall (with install.packages()) all your installed package *bundles* (the 8 on CRAN are VR, CoCo, dse, hoa, gregmisc, BACCO, empiricalBayes, forecasting). I hope update packages will work again afterwards. Best wishes, Uwe Ligges > This happens with other packages besides fBasics (Matrix, as well as others) > and I have switched mirrors and the same thing occurs. > > Any suggestions? > > Best regards, > > Patrick > Win XP SP3 > > R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets tcltk utils methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] svSocket_0.9-5 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1 Hmisc_3.5-2 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] cluster_1.11.13 grid_2.9.0 lattice_0.17-22 svMisc_0.9-5 > tools_2.9.0 > > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:15}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.