After updating to version 2.14 and copying packages from my Version 2.13.2 library I ran
update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE,ask=FALSE) to update these packages. This failed because AVG reported a virus in the "temporary" copy of colorspace.dll created during the install and the update then failed because it was unable to open this temporary file. To continue I deleted the colorspace packages and its reverse dependences and the reverse dependencies of the reverse dependencies. After deleting these packages the update process then finished. I would presume that the virus is probably a false detection. However when I virus check the version 2.13.2 library AVG does not find a virus. As far as I can determine the only difference between the two packages is that they are built with different versions of R. I would intend to reinstall these packages when the problem has been solved. I am sending a report to AVG. For the moment I can fall back to the earlier version if necessary. Has any one else detected a similar problem. An extract of the diagnosis sent to AVG is below. Best regards John AVG Free Version 2012.0.1869 Virus database 2092/4602 detects a virus in the colorspace package in the R statistical system. The zip file containing the offending file can be downloaded from http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/colorspace_1.1-0.zip or from any of the CRAN mirrors. The message produced by AVG is ***************************************************** File name: c:\.....\colourspace\libs\i386\colorspace.dll Threat name: Virus found Win32/Heur Detected on open ***************************************************** Is this a false positive? -- John C Frain Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
