[Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/05/2010 6:21 PM, Mike Prager wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in 
>> R-devel, revision 51980 or later.  (A build of this revision should be 
>> on CRAN by tomorrow, at 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html .)
>>
>>     
> Thanks for trying to fix this. Here is a cut-and-paste [...edited]
> from Rgui.exe.  Hope it helps.  MHP
>
>
> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-05-11 r51980)
> Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0  [...]
>
>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> [...]
> Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: stats
> Loading required package: utils
> Loading required package: graphics
> Loading required package: splines
>
> Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
> [...]
>
>   

Was rJava among the packages loaded at the time you tried this?
>> update.packages(ask='graphics')
>>     
> trying URL [...]
> downloaded 1.0 Mb
>
> package 'maps' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'c:\Program
> Files\R\Library\file390c7e87\rJava' to 'c:\Program
> Files\R\Library\rJava'
>   

After the install was complete, was rJava present in Library?  Was it 
updated?  Was the temporary directory file390c7e87 still present?

Duncan Murdoch

> package 'strucchange' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'svMisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'tkrplot' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'vcd' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>         C:\Documents and Settings\mike.prager\Local
> Settings\Temp\RtmpyrBgXD\downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> In normalizePath(path) :
>   path[1]="c:\Program Files\R\Library/rJava": The system cannot find
> the file specified
>   
>> traceback()
>>     
> No traceback available 
>   
>
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