[R] A question of install R packages

Peter Dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 08:59:33 CEST 2010


hen chao Chang wrote:
> 
> 
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:05 PM, hen chao Chang wrote:
> 
>> My R_version is 2.11.1.
>> I can’t install R packages.
>> The error massages are following:
>>
>> package 'DBI' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> error in normalizePath(path) :
>>  path[1]="E:\R-2.11.1\library/DBI"……
> 
> ... and were you running as administrator?
>  
> Yes, I am running as administrator.
> 

This has previously been traced to antivirus software playing games with
the temporary installation directory. I'm not sure we got completely to
the bottom of it, but try searching the archives for yourself.

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Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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