First question: is this the right mailing list to discuss installation problems?
if yes: (Windows XP professional environment ) Installing a second packege after the first causes an error: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'RMySQL' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'DBI' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.6.1\library\file3d6c4ae1\DBI' to 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.6.1\library\DBI' updating HTML package descriptions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but installing DBI first causes the same error but than with RMySQL: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'DBI' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked updating HTML package descriptions > utils:::menuInstallLocal() package 'RMySQL' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warnung: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.6.1\library\file3d6c4ae1\RMySQL' to 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.6.1\library\RMySQL' updating HTML package descriptions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The directory C:\Programme\R\R-2.6.1\library\file3d6c4ae1\ is not present ... I tried a several times to restart the Rgui no without saving the workspace and tried to install the package again no change. The last time I saved the Workspace and got a success after installing the package: > but the initial problem is still there > library(DBI) > library(RMySQL) Error in dyn.load(file, ...) : cannot load shared library 'C:/Programme/R/R-2.6.1/library/RMySQL/libs/RMySQL.dll' LoadLibrary failure: module not found (Remark translated message) Fehler: Laden von Paket/Namensraum für 'RMySQL' fehlgeschlagen > Regards Knut ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.