[R-sig-Geo] Problems to install the raster package

[Pierre Roudier]

Hi,

I got a problem when trying to install the raster package on our cluster.

I'm using the following synthax (I also unsuccessfully tried with a
local tar.gz archive):

install.package('raster', repos = "http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz",
lib = Sys.getenv("TMP"))

But I'm getting the following error:

Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'raster', details:
  call: gzfile(file, "r")
  error: cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
  cannot open compressed file '', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'raster'
Execution halted

Here's the sessionInfo():

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.iso885915        LC_COLLATE=en_US.iso885915
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C                  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.iso885915       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C                   LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.iso885915 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Any help would be most appreciated,

Pierre

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Scientist
Landcare Research, New Zealand