Error saying cannot open the connection when trying to install a package in R

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I'm trying to install a package in R and I'm getting this error:

Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
  cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  downloaded length 1425408 != reported length 2197711
2: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
3: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
  cannot open compressed file 'recommenderlab/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Nov 26, 2018 in Data Analytics by Ali
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1 answer to this question.

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Try

install.packages(“package_name”,  repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")
answered Nov 26, 2018 by Maverick
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