Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-28 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
running). Thanks all for the advice! Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Lantos Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 8:35 PM To: Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca>; Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
; Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package Thanks, Kevin. I have done that but no luck. Paul -Original Message- From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 27,

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
nstall packages to my documents, my desktop, > wherever, so I sort of doubt that would fix the problem. > > Paul > > > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:14 PM > To: Paul Lantos <pa

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread peter dalgaard
message > From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > Date: 3/27/18 5:57 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package > > Have you investiga

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
I don't believe I've gotten a reply from a Kevin Thorpe. Original message From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Date: 3/27/18 5:57 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
ewly created library. > >-Original Message- >From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] >Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:26 PM >To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> >Cc: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package Do you have other instances of R open at the time you are doing this? Did you already have mgcv installed in your personal library when you tried installing it again? There is clearly something preventing yo

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
gt; desktop, wherever, so I sort of doubt that would fix the problem. > > Paul > > > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:14 PM > To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> > Cc: r-he

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
rever, so I sort of doubt that would fix the problem. Paul -Original Message- From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:14 PM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
y desktop, wherever, so I sort of doubt that would fix the problem. Paul -Original Message- From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:14 PM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move tempor

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
ld fix the problem. Paul -Original Message- From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:14 PM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package Nothing jumps o

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
6 AM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu>; r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package Perhaps someone here will see something useful if you post the output of the following function calls: sessionInfo() .libPaths() file.info(.libPaths()) and t

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Lantos
/Program Files/R/R-3.4.4/library no -Original Message- From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:16 AM To: Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu>; r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] unable to move temporary installation of

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-26 Thread Jeff Newmiller
dnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] >Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 5:22 PM >To: r-help@r-project.org; Paul Lantos <paul.lan...@duke.edu>; >r-help@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package > >A) Don't try to "move" packages from one librar

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-26 Thread Paul Lantos
help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package A) Don't try to "move" packages from one library (=directory of installed packages) to another. B) Although R Open is very close to CRAN R, it has some differences that you REALLY NEED TO READ about at th

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-26 Thread Jeff Newmiller
A) Don't try to "move" packages from one library (=directory of installed packages) to another. B) Although R Open is very close to CRAN R, it has some differences that you REALLY NEED TO READ about at their website. Pay particular attention to the checkpoint feature in this case. Note that

[R] unable to move temporary installation of package

2018-03-26 Thread Paul Lantos
I'm running Windows 10 / R Studio / R Open 3.4.3 Since getting a new computer recently I cannot install packages into my personal libpath directory, and I can't seem to update packages (it says all packages are up to date even if I manually install an old version). I've got 100% admin rights

[R] unable to move temporary installation when install some packages

2014-09-11 Thread PO SU
Dear expeRts, These days  i and some of my friends often encount   the same problem when installing packages, e.g. when i try to install.packages(stringi), i will get : package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages : unable to move temporary

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation when install some packages

2014-09-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/09/2014 07:19, PO SU wrote: Dear expeRts, These days i and some of my friends often encount the same problem when installing packages, e.g. when i try to install.packages(stringi), i will get : package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-05 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 05.04.2012 17:40, Drew Tyre wrote: A final, final followup. Uwe, your suggestion is spot on - disabling the virus scanner fixes the problem. UNL recently changed virus scanning software, so this issue arose with Windows XP and Symantec Endpoint Protection. It can be readily disabled and

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-05 Thread Drew Tyre
A final, final followup. Uwe, your suggestion is spot on - disabling the virus scanner fixes the problem. UNL recently changed virus scanning software, so this issue arose with Windows XP and Symantec Endpoint Protection. It can be readily disabled and reenabled from the system tray, so not too

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 03.04.2012 19:43, Drew Tyre wrote: 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

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-04 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
My $.01 contribution without having read the complete thread: Some other process/service is locking your file/directory. There are a few Windows tools out there helping your to narrow down exactly which, e.g. http://www.guidingtech.com/10175/tools-to-delete-locked-files-in-windows/ /Henrik

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-03 Thread Drew Tyre
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

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-04-02 Thread Drew Tyre
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

[R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-03-31 Thread Drew Tyre
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

Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation

2012-03-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
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