[R] setting the R_Libs gives warning message from Rgui.exe

[Daren Tan]

I have managed to get rid the two warning messages simply by uninstalling and installing again R. Very likely that I disrupted the installation of a large package. 

> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:07:38 +0100
> From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> To: daren76 at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] setting the R_Libs gives warning message from Rgui.exe
> 
> 
> 
> Daren Tan wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I keep getting the error message and a pop-up window for selecting CRAN mirror server from Rgui.exe after setting the R_Libs
>> 
>> Warning in install.packages(necessary[!installed], dep = T) :
>> argument 'lib' is missing: using 'D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs'
> 
> This is a warning that R chooses the first library in the current list, 
> and this is obviously the one you intended, isn't it?
> 
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Error in contrib.url(repos, type) : 
> 
> This is the more interesting error. What is the whole message?
> You may have chosen a non-working mirror or your internet connectrion is 
> broken, or ...or... or
> ...
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> I set the command for Rgui.exe to be 
>> "D:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.0\bin\Rgui.exe" --no-restore --no-save --max-mem-size 2000MB R_LIBS="D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs"
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) 
>> i386-pc-mingw32 
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] qvalue_1.1
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.8.0
>> 
>> 
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