[Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

[William Dunlap]

Mike,
  If you have the time and can consistently reproduce
this problem you might try using Sysinternal's
Process Monitor program to capture the details of what
R and other programs were doing in that directory around
the time of the problem.
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

I have not used Process Monitor, but have profitably used
the older Filemon program and Process Explorer from Sysinternals.
They act somewhat like the Linux lsof and strace programs,
tracing things at the interface between a program and the
operating system.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Mike Prager
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:21 PM
> To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found
> 
> 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'
> [...]
> 
> > 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'
> 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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