I have explained that on R-help earlier today (and when VR_7.1-4 was announced). Please look back a few hours in the R-help postings.
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.
Why?
Because VR and dse are bundles and someone broke the installation of bundles in R 1.7.0 on Windows.
You can download and unzip the zip files in rw1070/library.
The CRAN maintainers also got first messages from users who didn't know about this bug. In order to avoid a huge amount of further questions and bug reports related to these problems, I decided to move the two package bundles from CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7 to a subfolder until R-1.7.1 will be released.
Please read CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/ReadMe for details.
The change presumably will show up on CRAN master within 24 hours.
Uwe Ligges
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