A hint: I have seen this exact error message with a build configured
to use the system's zlib 1.2.4 (which has been out for about 2 weeks),
and this incompatibility is noted in the current R 2.11.0 alpha's
manuals.
We do recommend *not* using the system zlib, but if you do insist on
doing so do be aware that R may not work with future versions of
external software.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 30.03.2010 16:55, Juergen Rose wrote:
Hi,
on all my systems update.packages() and install.packages() fails now. I
get the following message:
r...@orca:/root(28)# R
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
update.packages(checkBuilt=T)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting 'Li ...' is malformed!
update.packages()
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting 'Li ...' is malformed!
install.packages("e1071")
Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf) : Line starting 'Li ...' is malformed!
Which repositories are used? If only CRAN: Which CRAN mirror?
Best,
Uwe Ligges
All systems are gentoo systems with R-2.10.1.
Also reinstalling of R from sources did not solve the problem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Regards
Juergen
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