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!

thank you all for your various suggestions and assistance.

2012/4/4 Uwe Ligges <ligges@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@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@statistik.tu-**dortmund.de<ligges@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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