[R] Error Downloading Matrix Package

[Doran, Harold]

After restarting Windows Matrix was properly updated. Not quite sure
where the error was, but it is certainly local. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:58 AM
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; bates at stat.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [R] Error Downloading Matrix Package

Possible answers:

1) You do not have permission to remove the package from its previous
location.

2) Windows mistakenly thinks that some file in the package is still
open.

Try deleting the directory from Windows Explorer.  If 2) you may have to
log out or reboot Windows before you can do so.

BTW, my Windows setup updated successfully this morning, so this is
indeed a local problem.


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Doran, Harold wrote:

> I'm trying to update my Matrix package given the update last night.
But
> the following error is generated. I've tried restarting R and deleting
> my old Matrix package. Can anyone suggest how this might be resolved?
>
>> install.packages('Matrix')
> trying URL
>
'http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/Mat
> rix_0.98-1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 891288 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 870Kb
>
> package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error: cannot remove prior installation of package 'Matrix'
>
>
>> traceback()
> 4: stop(sprintf(gettext("cannot remove prior installation of package
> '%s'"),
>       curPkg), domain = NA, call. = FALSE)
> 3: unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2], foundpkgs[okp, 1], lib,
installWithVers)
> 2: .install.winbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl = contriburl,
>       method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir,
>       installWithVers = installWithVers, dependencies = dependencies)
> 1: install.packages("Matrix")
>
>
> This is on a Windows XP machine for R 2.11
>
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