[R] unable to move temporary installation

Wed Apr 4 19:27:48 CEST 2012

My $.01 contribution without having read the complete thread:

Some other process/service is locking your file/directory.  There are
a few Windows tools out there helping your to narrow down exactly
which, e.g.

  http://www.guidingtech.com/10175/tools-to-delete-locked-files-in-windows/

/Henrik

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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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