Uwe:

Well, a simple re-install did the trick apparently:


> install.packages("forecast")Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.2/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)also installing the dependency ‘caret’
trying URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/caret_5.15-045.zip'Content
type 'application/zip' length 3478831 bytes (3.3 Mb)opened
URLdownloaded 3.3 Mb
trying URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/forecast_4.00.zip'Content
type 'application/zip' length 1090858 bytes (1.0 Mb)opened
URLdownloaded 1.0 Mb
package ‘caret’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘forecast’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpK2YZCa\downloaded_packages>
library(forecast)Loading required package: caretLoading required
package: latticeLoading required package: reshapeLoading required
package: plyr
Attaching package: ‘reshape’
The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:plyr’:

    rename, round_any
Loading required package: clusterLoading required package:
foreachforeach: simple, scalable parallel programming from Revolution
Analytics
Use Revolution R for scalability, fault tolerance and
more.http://www.revolutionanalytics.com
Attaching package: ‘foreach’
The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:chron’:

    times
This is forecast 4.00




On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:48 PM, John Kerpel <john.kerpel2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Uwe:
>
> More specifically:
>
>
> > library(forecast)Loading required package: parallelLoading required package: tseries
>     ‘tseries’ version: 0.10-30
>
>     ‘tseries’ is a package for time series analysis and computational finance.
>
>     See ‘library(help="tseries")’ for details.
>
> Attaching package: ‘tseries’
> The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:chron’:
>
>     is.weekend
> Loading required package: fracdiffLoading required package: colorspaceLoading required package: nnetLoading required package: caretError: package ‘caret’ could not be loadedIn addition: Warning message:In library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>   there is no package called ‘caret’> library(caret)Error in library(caret) : there is no package called ‘caret’
>
>
> So the package won't load as a part of package forecast, nor will it load
> on its own after I download it individually.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> J
>  On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Uwe Ligges <
> ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 12.12.2012 16:32, John Kerpel wrote:
>>
>>> Folks:
>>>
>>> I keep getting the following error message (I'm on Windows 7, R-2.15.2,
>>> and
>>> tried a reboot...).  Thx!
>>>
>>>
>> Either you do not have write permission on that directory or you have the
>> package loaded already,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> install.packages("caret")**Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program
>>>> Files/R/R-2.15.2/library’
>>>>
>>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)trying URL
>>>
>>> 'http://streaming.stat.**iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/**
>>> contrib/2.15/caret_5.15-045.**zip'Content<http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/caret_5.15-045.zip'Content>
>>> type 'application/zip' length 3478831 bytes (3.3 Mb)opened
>>> URLdownloaded 3.3 Mb
>>>
>>> package ‘caret’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>    unable to move temporary installation ‘C:\Program
>>> Files\R\R-2.15.2\library\**file1628360a1dc0\caret’ to ‘C:\Program
>>> Files\R\R-2.15.2\library\**caret’
>>>
>>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>>         C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\**RtmpK2YZCa\downloaded_packages
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