Dear Paul, Maybe some of the packages were installed by a user with admin rights and you are installing them with a user how has no admin rights. Thus you have no rights to remove the files created by the admin user.
We made clear to our IT departement that they only may install R and not additional packages. We also tell them to set the environment variable R_LIBS_USER to C:/R/library and make sure that the user has full rights to that folder. All user installed packages will go in that folder. A side effect is that all packages remain available after an upgrade of R. Best regards, ir. 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Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2017-09-20 16:16 GMT+02:00 Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com>: > Dear R friends, > > I am currently using Windows 8, 64-bit operating system, x64-based > processor. I have installed R version 3.4.1 "Single Candle". > > Also, I have several packages installed in this path: > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4 > > Plus some other packages installed in this other path: > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\R Books > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\RPackagesNEW > > > And I have installed R in the following path: > > C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.1 > > Whenever I try to install an R package the following error messages are > displayed in the R console: > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f747105765\readstata13’ > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f744781797d\Hmisc’ to > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ > > package ‘readr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > package ‘hms’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f742a8422fe\hms’ to > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\hms’ > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7456645222\Hmisc’ to > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ > package ‘haven’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f746f04773d\haven’ to > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\haven’ > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f741507f27\readstata13’ > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ > package ‘readxl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f74271b1a7a\readxl’ > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readxl’ > package ‘RcmdrMisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7419e243c1\RcmdrMisc’ > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RcmdrMisc’ > > Do I have to put all the packages in the same path where I installed R? > Could this be happening because I have packages installed in several > folders with several paths? Should I consolidate and put all packages in a > single location? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, > > Cheers, > > Paul > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.