[R] Problem installing packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The first message makes sense, but unfortunately if we cannot reproduce 
it, we cannot help.  The issue appears to be that your OS is garbling file 
names.

Is this is a translation back from German?  The original would appear to 
be

     unable to move temporary installation '...' to '...'

Could you try a recent R-patched build?  There is a possibility that one 
of two fixes might have fixed this too.


On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Owe Jessen wrote:

> Owe Jessen schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> when I try installing new packages (in this case DBI) I run into the 
>> following problem:
>> 
>> Paket 'DBI' erfolgreich ausgepackt und MD5 Summen abgeglichen
>> Warnung: kann temporäre Installation 
>> 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.7.0\library\file5f906952\DBI' nicht nach 'Ý
xlDÌú
 
>> $@
\R\R-2.7.0\libra' verschieben
>> 
>> Has anybody any idea where these strange symbols come from?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Owe
>> 
> Excuse me for not giving much detail:
>
> The OS is Win XP SP2, R is 2.7.0, DBI is 0.2-4, the mirror was Göttingen, but 
> I had similar problems with Zürich.
>
> A rough translation of the warning is: " Package 'DBI' successfully extracted 
> and MD5 sums successfully checked. Warning: cannot move temporary 
> installation 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.7.0\library\file5f906952\DBI' to 'Ý
xlDÌú
 
> $@
\R\R-2.7.0\libra'". The cryptic part is not constant when i repeat the 
> installation, another example is 'Ý
xl<Ôu
 $@
\R\R-2.7.0\libra' or 
> 'Ý
xlÈ/w
 $@
\R\R-2.7.0\libra'.
>
> I hope this makes a bit more sense.
>
> TIA
> Owe
>
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