On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dirk Enzmann wrote: > The update of VR by downloading VR_7.1-6.zip and using install.packages > (from local zip files) fails with the following error message: > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open file `VR/DESCRIPTION' > > Other packages can be installed without problems, except of dse_2003.4-1 > with a similar error message. >
Because there is a bug in the handling of package bundles in R 1.7.0. VR and dse are bundles. R1.7.1 will be coming out soon and fixes this. Or you can manually unzip the bundle in the appropriate place in the library directory. -thomas ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help