From ramnath.vaidya at gmail.com  Sat Feb 27 21:09:44 2016
From: ramnath.vaidya at gmail.com (Ramnath Vaidyanathan)
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:09:44 -0800
Subject: [Rd] Unable to Install Packages from Binaries on Windows for R
	3.2.3
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It works for me now. Thanks.

Ramnath

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:33 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 27 Feb 2016, at 05:22 , Ramnath Vaidyanathan <
> ramnath.vaidya at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Installing packages from binaries on Windows seems broken, when using
> > mirrors that are up to date with CRAN
> >
> > install.packages(
> >  'httr',
> >  type = 'binary',
> >  repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"
> > )
> >
> > Changing repos to the Kansas CRAN mirror installs the package as
> expected,
> > but that could be because the KS mirror has not yet synced.
> >
> > Someone pointed out that the PACKAGES.gz file at
> > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/ seems to be
> corrupted
> > (0 KB), and this could be the issue.
>
>
> It's at 202K now in both places. Perhaps just retry?
>
> -pd
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[Rd] Unable to Install Packages from Binaries on Windows for R 3.2.3
Ramnath Vaidyanathan