[R] An "update.packages()" problem?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:

>
> I try to use "update.packages()" and it works fine, at least the
> packages download right.
> But when the packages are done it appears this message:
>
> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, lib) : cannot open file
> C:/rw1051/library/MASS/libs/MASS.dll
>
> What am Idoing wrong? (Yesterday it works fine!!!)

You have MASS loaded: Windows will not allow you to update packages which
are in use (at least, those containing DLLs).  Try a vanilla session
(with --vanilla, for example) and update from there.

>
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    5.1
> year     2002
> month    06
> day      17
> language R
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