Uwe, I deleted "gregmisc" from by library folder and ran update.packages() again and I still get the same error:
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 > Best regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM To: Richardson, Patrick Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot update.packages (error message) Richardson, Patrick wrote: > 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? Arrrgh, I made anoter mistake with gregmisc which is now fixed. Can you try in 24 hours to reinstall gregmisc and try update.packages() after that? Or for even better for now: Please delete the gregmisc folder in your library and try to run update.packages after that. Still problems? Uwe > 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 th...{{dropped:9}} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ 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.