[R] The system cannot find the file specified
What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista SNIP trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/mvtnorm_0.9-8.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 236089 bytes (230 Kb) opened URL downloaded 230 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/QRMlib_1.4.4.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 2369023 bytes (2.3 Mb) opened URL downloaded 2.3 Mb package 'robustbase' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fUtilities' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fEcofin' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fCalendar' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fSeries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'QRMlib' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try. Thanks, Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on your system? Duncan Murdoch SNIP Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library does exist C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib does not. As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the rest of the path. I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted here. Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. What happens in 2.10.0? Duncan Murdoch __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on your system? Duncan Murdoch SNIP trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/mvtnorm_0.9-8.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 236089 bytes (230 Kb) opened URL downloaded 230 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/QRMlib_1.4.4.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 2369023 bytes (2.3 Mb) opened URL downloaded 2.3 Mb package 'robustbase' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fUtilities' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fEcofin' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fCalendar' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fSeries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'QRMlib' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on your system? Duncan Murdoch SNIP Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library does exist C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib does not. As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the rest of the path. I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted here. Thanks, Mark __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on your system? Duncan Murdoch SNIP Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library does exist C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib does not. As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the rest of the path. I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted here. Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. What happens in 2.10.0? Duncan Murdoch __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
Thanks Duncan. 2.10 seems to install things correctly. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try. Thanks, Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on your system? Duncan Murdoch SNIP Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library does exist C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib does not. As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the rest of the path. I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted here. Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. What happens in 2.10.0? Duncan Murdoch __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
I think your are using R 2.10.0. I get similar messages when I have too many resources in use. Like FireFox eating memory and CPU. When you get this message go look in your R installation library subdirectory. You will see a weird number as a folder name. Under that folder is the package you were trying to install. Simply copy that package name folder to the correct folder location for the other packages in library. Then clean up by removing that weird folder name. Hope this helps, Jim Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista SNIP trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/mvtnorm_0.9-8.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 236089 bytes (230 Kb) opened URL downloaded 230 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/QRMlib_1.4.4.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 2369023 bytes (2.3 Mb) opened URL downloaded 2.3 Mb package 'robustbase' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fUtilities' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fEcofin' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fCalendar' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'fSeries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'QRMlib' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib: The system cannot find the file specified SNIP __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker prevented the R installer from creating a new directory. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On 10/29/2009 12:58 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker prevented the R installer from creating a new directory. Yes, virus checkers cause a lot of trouble for R. Some of them open files for exclusive access while checking, and when R tries to read or write the same file while the virus checker has it locked, it fails. Duncan Murdoch __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, hadley wickham wrote: (quoting Duncan Murdoch without attribution, tut tut) Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker prevented the R installer from creating a new directory. Another (more likely, and mentioned in the rw-FAQ) is that a file indexing service prevented the file being renamed. As I understand this thread, the OP was able to install several packages but the last one failed. That's more consistent with file indexing (a concurrent process that will interfere apparently randomly) than with permission issues. Anti-virus software normally intervenes before the file gets written, not on renaming. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595__ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jim Burke j.bu...@earthlink.net wrote: I think your are using R 2.10.0. No, I was using 2.9 and updating to 2.10 solved it for me. - Mark __ 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.
Re: [R] The system cannot find the file specified
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM, hadley wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker prevented the R installer from creating a new directory. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ Why then would it stop only the final directory getting created? When I installed the package on a new 2.9 installation it had to load 5 or 6 packages. The first 4 or 5 packages all created directories and it was only the final one that did not. When I installed on a new 2.10 installation it created all 5 or 6 directories and completed the installation successfully. - Mark __ 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.
