A final followup. I have identified a rather extreme workaround. The
problem arises when the function utils:::unpackPkgZip uses file.rename(...)
to move the unzipped binary package from the temporary directory that it
was unpacked into into the proper directory in the library tree. If one does
debug(utils:::unpackPkgZip)
and then steps through the function line by line, it works.
Thank you.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Drew Tyre <aty...@unl.edu> wrote:
> 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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