[R] unable to move temporary installation

[Uwe Ligges]

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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