[R] package installation error

[Duncan Murdoch]

Héctor Villalobos wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> This also happens in 2.9.1 and 2.9.2. My personal solution is to look 
> under ' C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.0\library' for a bizarre-named 
> directory (starts with an 'f' and has numbers and letters mixed) , 
> which contains the package directory (in this case 'robustbase') and 
> move it up one level (like the other packages). This is annoying, but 
> so far is the only solutions I have found.

I haven't been able to reproduce this, so all I can do is guess at the 
cause, but it looks as though a directory rename failed.  One cause for 
that would be that some application (like a virus checker, or file 
indexer, or some other background process) has a file open within the 
directory.  You could try disabling all such programs (though it's not 
easy in Windows, there are lots of ways to start them) and see if that 
helps.

Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> On 31 Aug 2009 at 9:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> > On 31/08/2009 8:53 AM, Haynes, Maurice (NIH/NICHD) [E] wrote:
> > > On Sun April 19, you posted the following on R-help:
> > >> After installing 2.9.0 I tried loading packages, but keep getting 
> the following error.
> > >>
> > >> package 'robustbase' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > >> Error in normalizePath(path) :
> > >>  path[1]="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.0\library/robustbase": The 
> system cannot find the file specified
> > >>
> > >
> > > I have had the same problem for months.  Have you found a solution?
> >
> > There have been two patch releases since 2.9.0.  Have you tried 2.9.2?
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
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