[R] unable to move temporary installation

Thu Apr 5 17:46:25 CEST 2012

On 05.04.2012 17:40, Drew Tyre wrote:
> A final, final followup. Uwe, your suggestion is spot on  - disabling the
> virus scanner fixes the problem. UNL recently changed virus scanning
> software, so this issue arose with Windows XP and Symantec Endpoint
> Protection. It can be readily disabled and reenabled from the system tray,
> so not too big an issue, once the problem is understood!

OK, problem is probably that the virus scanner locks the file and hence 
R cannot move them.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> thank you all for your various suggestions and assistance.
>
> 2012/4/4 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>
>>
>>
>> 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<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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