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Titus, > To: <address@hidden> > From: "Titus, Robert-Charles" <address@hidden> > Subject: Error inataiiling netCDF.ZIP > Organization: UCAR/Unidata The above message contained the following: > I am a new R user. I downloaded the netCDF.ZIP package from your site. = > When trying to install it using "Load package from local ZIP file", I = > get the following error message: > > > = > install.packages(choose.files('',filters=3DFilters[c('zip','All'),]), = > .libPaths()[1], CRAN =3D NULL) > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning messages:=20 > 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file=20 > 2: cannot open file `netcdf-3.5.0/DESCRIPTION' > > I unzipped and re-zipped (netCDF.ZIP to netCDF-3.5.0.zip), I still get = > the same error message. I am using the R Version 1.7.1 under Windows = > 2000 Professional. > > Any Help will be appreciated. > > Thanks. I'm sorry but I'm afraid you're on your own. Because the netCDF ZIP file in question is valid: $ unzip -l ~ftp/pub/netcdf/netcdf.ZIP Archive: /home/ftp/pub/netcdf/netcdf.ZIP Length Date Time Name ------ ---- ---- ---- 0 03-23-01 14:09 netcdf-3.5.0/ 0 03-23-01 14:04 netcdf-3.5.0/src/ 22322 03-23-01 14:00 netcdf-3.5.0/src/INSTALL.html 15001 08-04-97 12:17 netcdf-3.5.0/src/COMPATIBILITY 1847 05-12-99 13:03 netcdf-3.5.0/src/COPYRIGHT 3249 03-23-01 14:01 netcdf-3.5.0/src/MANIFEST 5742 02-27-01 09:04 netcdf-3.5.0/src/Makefile 932 10-20-00 09:48 netcdf-3.5.0/src/README 10772 03-13-01 10:39 netcdf-3.5.0/src/RELEASE_NOTES 6 02-27-01 09:28 netcdf-3.5.0/src/VERSION 30597 03-22-01 14:43 netcdf-3.5.0/src/aclocal.m4 115328 03-22-01 14:43 netcdf-3.5.0/src/configure 1295 03-22-01 14:43 netcdf-3.5.0/src/configure.in 2175 03-13-01 10:42 netcdf-3.5.0/src/macros.make.in 1931 09-23-97 14:06 netcdf-3.5.0/src/macros.make.def 5728 03-12-01 15:31 netcdf-3.5.0/src/rules.make 0 03-23-01 14:04 netcdf-3.5.0/src/libsrc/ 43064 06-11-97 10:13 netcdf-3.5.0/src/libsrc/attr.c ... there must be something wrong with your R. Diagnosing that problem would require that we debug a foreign, 3-rd party software system -- something for which we don't have the resources. I suggest that you use the utility "unzip" instead of R to unpack the netCDF distribution. Regards, Steve Emmerson