You downloaded a .tar.gz file and treated it as a zip file, for some reason not in any R documentation.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Nebahat Noyan wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to download the bootstrap.tar.gz from the website below: > > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Old/0.50/INDEX.html > > I have extracted the folder to a zip file...and then use the load > packages from local zip files. I use R2.0.0.0 and windows NT, i get the > error: > > 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file > 2: cannot open file `bootstrap/DESCRIPTION' > > ALso, when i use R CMD INSTALL with the package name bootstrap.tar.gz it > gives a syntax error. Can you help me with this pLease? Perhaps that is because the file you got is for R 0.50, not R 2.0.0 (sic)? The bootstrap package has been withdrawn and does not work under R 2.0.0 AFAIK. > > Sincere Regards, > Neba Noyan > Research Assistant > Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation Institute > Rutgers University > > P.S: > ReLated solutions in the mailing List are below: They are *not* related. > > solved : > > before installing using menu option, go to "program files\R\rw1051\library" and > > make a directory "pubbias", then install the package from the local zip file > > option. > > > 1) the zip file might have invalid internal structure. Maybe it is > >missing the directory `pubbias' (although the unzip code should cope with > >that, and that's not the error code I would expect). > >2) This is not the first attempt to do something like this, and Windows > >had the location in use. (I have seen that one, and after a reboot it > >worked cleanly.) > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] What does the posting guide say about that? > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
