OK - so I followed the following steps, which I think rule out those causes
1) I uninstalled all remaining versions of R, and then deleted all the
directories in c:\progra~1\R
2) I restarted the computer
3) I installed 2.14.2, and attempted to install the Rcmdr package. Same
error message for both the cars package and the Rcmdr package.
4) I then exited and confirmed that I have write permission to
C:\progra~1\R\R-2.14.2\libraries both by looking at the permissions, and by
creating a directory in there. I appear to have full control, and I could
create the directory. note that R is able to create the temporary directory
to install the package, but not the correct, final directory.
5) I then uninstalled 2.14.2, and installed 2.15.0, hoping for a fix. No
luck. Same error message.
6) I then tried installing the packages to a different directory, one that
I created, c:\test, using
install.packages("Rcmdr","c:\\test")
This time, the car package installed correctly, but Rcmdr still had the
same warning message
Warning: unable to move temporary installation
c:\test\file136c67c337b3\Rcmdr to c:\test\Rcmdr
There is clearly something messed up on this computer, but I'm at a loss
for how to get around it. Thanks for the suggestions, and I guess I have to
work on a different computer!
2012/3/31 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> On 31.03.2012 16:15, Drew Tyre wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a strange error that prevents me from installing new packages,
>> or updating packages after reinstalling. The error message is
>> Warning: unable to move temporary installation C:\Program
>> Files\R\R-2.14.2\library\**file15045004ac2\sandwich to C:\Program
>> Files\R\R-2.14.2\library\**sandwich
>> for one of the packages that is failing to install/update. This error
>> started happening after I attempted installing lme4Eigen from the R-Forge
>> repositories - that installation failed too.
>>
>> Any suggestions for fixes welcome. I don't want to upgrade to 2.15 just
>> yet
>> because I'm in the middle of a project (although if that's the solution I
>> guess I'll have to do it).
>>
>
> Probably the package is in use by another instance of R. Otherwise, check
> permissions.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.14.2
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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