Hi Picohan,
I notice that you install this to the c directory.  If you are on windows 7,
make sure R has proper write permissions.
I collected some links about similar issues at this post:
http://www.r-statistics.com/2011/04/how-to-upgrade-r-on-windows-7/


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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:50 AM, picohan <hansen@picoquant.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got an error if I try to install a package. For example package emg:
> R CMD check emg
> Everything is fine.
> R CMD INSTALL emg
> I got the following errors:
>
> * installing to library 'c:/R_2_13_1/library'
> * installing *source* package 'emg' ...
> Error in file_path_as_absolute(dfile) :
>  Datei './DESCRIPTION' existiert nicht
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed fo
> * removing 'c:/R_2_13_1/library/emg'
> * restoring previous 'c:/R_2_13_1/library/emg'
>
> It says, file DESCRIPTION is missing, despite it exists. The same behavoir
> with other packages. I would be very pleased if someone can help me with
> that problem.
>
> cheers,
> Joerg
>
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