[Rd] Package Installation in RGui (PR#7262)

[Uwe Ligges]

Heather.Turner at warwick.ac.uk wrote:

> Full_Name: Heather Turner
> Version: 2.0.0
> OS: Windows NT
> Submission from: (NULL) (137.205.8.2)

Works for me. Do you have the right permissions? Is there free space on 
drive H:?

Uwe Ligges

> 
> I tried using the Packages menu to install the gam package and get the following
> output:
> 
> 
>>local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> 
> + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a,
> dependencies=TRUE)})
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 21246 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 20Kb
> 
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/gam_0.92.zip'
> Content type `application/zip' length 224167 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 218Kb
> 
> package 'gam' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y
> 
> Warning message: 
> unable to move temp installation 'H:/rw2000/library\file15762/gam' to
> 'H:/rw2000/library/gam'
> 
> I get the same message if I opt to delete the downloaded files and the same
> problem if I try to install from a downloaded .zip file instead - not really
> surprising as seems to "unpack" file okay, but loses the temporary file. As the
> syntax of the file path for the temporary file is incorrect, I'm assuming this
> is a bug in install.packages or one of the functions it calls...
> 
> Heather
> 
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