[R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

[Duncan Murdoch]

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>
> 
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