[R] Error when downloading and installing ALL R packages

[Bernd Weiss]

On 22 Apr 2005 at 17:53, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> 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.

Thanks to all the replies. After some playing around I found the 
solution which is a simple reboot after updating to R 2.1. 

Have a nice week,

Bernd