For what it's worth: I turned off the "Real time file scanning" and everything worked fine.
This is using McAfee anti-virus software. Thanks, Erin On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:15 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2010, at 13:52 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 09/09/2010 12:01 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote: >>> Dear R People: >>> I keep getting the "Error in normalizePath(path) :" while trying to >>> obtain the necessary packages to use with the "Applied Spatial >>> Statistics with R" book. >>> I turned off the Firewall (from McAfee) but am still getting the same >>> message. >>> Does anyone have any idea on a solution please? >> >> I think you need to show us your code and the error in context. > > Maybe not... We have been here before, and if I remember correctly, the issue > is not the firewall, but antivirus software messing with temp directories. > (As I understand it, it goes "I see you have created a new directory, now let > me put that in a safe place while I check it for malware. Oh, you were still > using it? Too bad." Sort of like grabbing someone's new cup while they are > trying to pour milk into it....) > > Check back issues of R-help for details of the earlier incidents. > >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) >>> i386-pc-mingw32 >>> 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 >>> other attached packages: >>> [1] ctv_0.6-0 >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>> [1] tools_2.11.1 >>>> >>> Thanks, >>> Erin >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.