[R] Difficulty Installing Packages

[Richard M. Heiberger]

And also to the initial error message

I suggest the message be revised to say


" unable to move temporary installation.  Please close all running R
instances, and try again from a fresh
'R --vanilla' instance"

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> I think that this response should be added to R for Windows FAQ 3.5.
> --
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On August 26, 2017 11:45:55 PM PDT, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>On Windows, if you load a dll, this is locked.
>>Hence, for package installations, close all R instances, start one
>>without loading packages and then update packages.
>>
>>Best,
>>Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On 26.08.2017 15:18, Bill Denney wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When installing packages in Windows (currently using Windows 10 with
>>all
>>> service packs), occasionally, I get a warning similar to the
>>following:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> package 'Rcpp' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>
>>>    unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Users\William
>>> Denney\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file32701900456\Rcpp' to
>>> 'C:\Users\William Denney\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Rcpp'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This can occur when installing many packages where the package that
>>could
>>> not be moved (e.g. Rcpp) is a dependency.  In the end, the package
>>where the
>>> warning is issued is not available to load, and I have to spend time
>>> figuring out why.  The usual reason is that for some reason during
>>the
>>> package install process the library directory ("C:\Users\William
>>> Denney\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\") has been set to partially or
>>fully
>>> read-only.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a couple of questions:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *    Why is the directory set to read-only?  It happens almost every
>>time
>>> that I install packages that are compiled.  (It doesn't seem to occur
>>with
>>> interpreted-only packages.)
>>> *    Shouldn't that warning be an error or at least prevent the packages
>>> that depend on the one that couldn't be moved from being installed?
>>The way
>>> that it tends to go, package installation completes with that
>>warning, and
>>> then I have to clean up the mess of missing dependencies.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>      [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
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