Someone once suggested this error happened was due to the Windows 'Indexing Service' (sp?) delaying the commital of a request to rename a directory (so a subsequent request to use the renamed directory failed).
Was the indexing service running when this happened? Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Mike Prager > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 5:28 AM > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found > > On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Mike Prager wrote: > >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run > >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will > succeed, then I > >> get a failure like > >> > >> > >> package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > >> package 'party' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > >> package 'PBSmodelling' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > >> Error in normalizePath(path) : > >> path[1]="c:\Program Files\R\Library/PBSmodelling": The > system cannot > >> find the file specified > >> > > > >Is that a cut and paste of the error message? Normally R > would double > >the backslashes when displaying a string, so it looks as > though you've > >somehow got a path containing the control characters \P, \R, > and \L. > >Did you set the lib.loc argument when you called update.packages? > > Thank you! Yes, it's cut and paste. I did not set lib.loc in the > call (made through the Rgui.exe menu system), but I have the library > location defined in the environment: > > R_LIBS=c:/Program Files/R/Library > > I've been using this approach for several years, and it's worked > without problem until now. > > MHP > > >> > >> Indeed, the path is missing, though it was there when I issued the > >> update.packages command. > >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
