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

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 15:29:51 CET 2009


Thanks Duncan. 2.10 seems to install things correctly.

Cheers,
Mark

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>>>
>>>>> Error in normalizePath(path) :
>>>>>  path[1]="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib": The system
>>>>> cannot find the file specified
>>>>>
>>>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library" does exist
>>>
>>> "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib" does not.
>>>
>>> As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me
>>> that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the
>>> rest of the path.
>>>
>>> I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted
>>> here.
>>
>> Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library?  It
>> could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and
>> failed, and that's why it doesn't exist.
>>
>> What happens in 2.10.0?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>




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