I didn't load the package. I wasn't able to do that, since I wasn't successfull to install it in first place with install.packages.
-----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: pon 2005-03-14 15:34 To: Gorjanc Gregor Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [Rd] Package Installation in RGui (PR#7262) Under Windows, you cannot update / install a package, if the package has been loaded, because Windows locks the dll. This is a FAQ. Uwe Ligges Gorjanc Gregor wrote: > Hello! > > I have just encountered the same situation as Heather and also Paul Gilbert at > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/05/02/2095.html > > I went into install.packages() in current release as well as in R-devel and > there is really no problem with \ or /. However, I also had the same warning > > >>install.packages("RODBC") > > [... snip ...] > Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y > > updating HTML package descriptions > Warning message: > unable to move temp installation > 'N:/Ovce/Programi/R/rw2001/library\file27583/RODBC' to > 'N:/Ovce/Programi/R/rw2001/library/RODBC' > > The warning is issued from this part of install.packages() > > if (ret == 0) { > ## Move the new package to the install lib and > ## remove our temp dir > ret <- file.rename(file.path(tmpDir, curPkg), instPath) > if(!ret) warning("unable to move temp installation ", > sQuote(file.path(tmpDir, curPkg)), > " to ", > sQuote(instPath), call. = FALSE) > } else { > ## !! Can't revert to old 'zip.unpack' as it would > ## !! potentially leave cruft from a bundle in there > stop("Can not remove prior installation of package ", > sQuote(curPkg), call. = FALSE) > } > > "Problem" lies in > > ret <- file.rename(file.path(tmpDir, curPkg), instPath) > > I went through the whole function "by hand" and at first the above line > didn't moved tmpDir to instPath. I tried several times and after a while > it was successfull. It is strange that it happens only with some packages > i.e. in my case with RODBC and car. I also noted that line above takes > quite a lot of time to "accomplish" its work. It actually causes R to > freeze for a moment. If I launched > > file.rename(file.path(tmpDir, curPkg), instPath) > > move was done in a moment. I know, that this comment is not the answer > to the problem. However, someone might come with that. > > One more thing. I have R installed on networked disk. I assume that Heather > does also, since disk letter is H. On the other hand, Paul reported problems > with C disk. > > Windows XP SP1 > R 2.0.1 > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Full_Name: Heather Turner >>Version: 2.0.0 >>OS: Windows NT >>Submission from: (NULL) (137.205.8.2) >> >> >>I tried using the Packages menu to install the gam package and get the >>following >>output: >> >> >>>local({a <- CRAN.packages() >> >>+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a, >>dependencies=TRUE)}) >>trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' >>Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 21246 bytes >>opened URL >>downloaded 20Kb >> >>trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/gam_0.92.zip' >>Content type `application/zip' length 224167 bytes >>opened URL >>downloaded 218Kb >> >>package 'gam' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> >>Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y >> >>Warning message: >>unable to move temp installation 'H:/rw2000/library\file15762/gam' to >>'H:/rw2000/library/gam' >> >>I get the same message if I opt to delete the downloaded files and the >>same problem if I try to install from a downloaded .zip file instead - >>not really surprising as seems to "unpack" file okay, but loses the >>temporary file. As the syntax of the file path for the temporary file is >>incorrect, I'm assuming this is a bug in install.packages or one of the >>functions it calls... > > > Since you _incorrectly_ assume that the syntax is incorrect, the rest of > your assumption is incorrect. As the FAQ asks, please don't speculate > about things you are not expert about, but stick to facts. Also as the > FAQ asks, don't misuse R-bugs for things you do not know _for sure_ are > bugs in R. > > FYI, Windows accepts both /and \ in file paths, including a mixture. If > your speculation was correct install.packages() would work for no one, and > do you seriously think that such a bug would go unreported and unfixed. > > We have seen this once before, and it was a Windows bug solved by updating > Windows to the latest set of patches. Since you have not reported a > precise version of Windows, it is hard for us to know what you were using, > but if you mean NT4.0, that is rather old (last Service Pack five years > ago I read yesterday). > ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
