[R] unable to move temporary installation

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.04.2012 19:43, Drew Tyre wrote:
> A final followup. I have identified a rather extreme workaround. The
> problem arises when the function utils:::unpackPkgZip uses file.rename(...)
> to move the unzipped binary package from the temporary directory that it
> was unpacked into into the proper directory in the library tree. If one does
> debug(utils:::unpackPkgZip)
> and then steps through the function line by line, it works.

Then check your virus scanner ot the speed of IO if this is a remote 
file system.

Uwe Ligges



> Thank you.
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Drew Tyre<atyre2 at unl.edu>  wrote:
>
>> OK - so I followed the following steps, which I think rule out those causes
>>
>> 1) I uninstalled all remaining versions of R, and then deleted all the
>> directories in c:\progra~1\R
>> 2) I restarted the computer
>> 3) I installed 2.14.2, and attempted to install the Rcmdr package. Same
>> error message for both the cars package and the Rcmdr package.
>> 4) I then exited and confirmed that I have write permission to
>> C:\progra~1\R\R-2.14.2\libraries both by looking at the permissions, and by
>> creating a directory in there. I appear to have full control, and I could
>> create the directory. note that R is able to create the temporary directory
>> to install the package, but not the correct, final directory.
>> 5) I then uninstalled 2.14.2, and installed 2.15.0, hoping for a fix. No
>> luck. Same error message.
>> 6) I then tried installing the packages to a different directory, one that
>> I created, c:\test, using
>> install.packages("Rcmdr","c:\\test")
>> This time, the car package installed correctly, but Rcmdr still had the
>> same warning message
>>
>> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
>> ‘c:\test\file136c67c337b3\Rcmdr’ to ‘c:\test\Rcmdr’
>>
>> There is clearly something messed up on this computer, but I'm at a loss
>> for how to get around it. Thanks for the suggestions, and I guess I have to
>> work on a different computer!
>>
>> 2012/3/31 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>>
>>> On 31.03.2012 16:15, Drew Tyre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a strange error that prevents me from installing new
>> packages,
>>>> or updating packages after reinstalling. The error message is
>>>> Warning: unable to move temporary installation ‘C:\Program
>>>> Files\R\R-2.14.2\library\**file15045004ac2\sandwich’ to ‘C:\Program
>>>> Files\R\R-2.14.2\library\**sandwich’
>>>> for one of the packages that is failing to install/update. This error
>>>> started happening after I attempted installing lme4Eigen from the
>> R-Forge
>>>> repositories - that installation failed too.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions for fixes welcome. I don't want to upgrade to 2.15 just
>>>> yet
>>>> because I'm in the middle of a project (although if that's the solution
>> I
>>>> guess I'll have to do it).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Probably the package is in use by another instance of R. Otherwise, check
>>> permissions.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>   R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] tools_2.14.2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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