[R] Error when downloading and installing ALL R packages

[Uwe Ligges]

Bernd Weiss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after updating to 2.1 (see below) I am no longer able to install all 
> R packages as mentioned at  
> <http://support.stat.ucla.edu/view.php?supportid=30>. 
> 
> After finishing the download, I received the following error:
> 
> [...]
> 
> trying URL 
> 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/xgobi_1.2-
> 13.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 102623 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 100Kb
> 
> trying URL 
> 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/yags_4.0-
> 1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 168770 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 164Kb
> 
> package 'AMORE' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'AlgDesign' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in sprintf(gettext("unable to move temp installation '%d' to 
> '%s'"),  : 
>         use format %s for character objects

Maybe your disc is full or a package is already in use and one of its 
files is locked? Unfortunately, we don't know which packages comes after 
"AlgDesign", because of the bug in
    sprintf(gettext("unable to move temp installation '%d' to '%s'"))
you just have discovered.

Uwe Ligges





> 
> TIA,
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>version
> 
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status   Patched        
> major    2              
> minor    1.0            
> year     2005           
> month    04             
> day      18             
> language R
> 
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