[R] Error when downloading and installing ALL R packages

[Dieter Menne]

Uwe Ligges <ligges <at> statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Bernd Weiss wrote:

> > Error in sprintf(gettext("unable to move temp installation '%d' to 
> > '%s'"),  : 
> >         use format %s for character objects
> 
> Maybe your disc is full or a package is already in use and one of its 
> files is locked? Unfortunately, we don't know which packages comes after 
> "AlgDesign", because of the bug in
>     sprintf(gettext("unable to move temp installation '%d' to '%s'"))
> you just have discovered.

(I plead guilty having cut down the above text. And I am sure I forgot to quote 
someone important.)

I saw the same message twice already when downloading packages. This was NOT in 
an "ALL" download, I only picked 2 and 3 packages respectively, and the message 
always occurred after the last. I never have seen the message on pre 2.1.0 
versions on this system.
However, I could not reproduce this behavior, it because in both cases packages 
loaded succesfully on immediate retries.

(Vage suspect: some timeout on writing to disk?)

Dieter Menne

platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    2              
minor    1.0            
year     2005           
month    04             
day      18             
language R