Hi,

Just lately, I'm getting an odd behavior from the
install packages menu item.  When trying to upgrade a package,
all seems to go well, except that it doesn't indicate that the
package has been upgraded in the Installed Version column,
and then when I try to load the package, it gives me, for example when
trying to upgrade the XML package to version 1.7-3,

library(XML)
Warning message:
unable to move temporary installation '~/Library/R/2.5/library/ 
file9e04f3f/XML' to '~/Library/R/2.5/library/XML'

When I look in ~/Library/R/2.5/library, I find
a directory, file591f56cd that contains the XML,
in this case, directory with the package contents
within.  Usually (I don't know if this is normal),
I find such a directory but it is empty as if a mv
had been applied (if this is all I have to do to
finish the installation, OK, but it was nice when
it was automated).

I didn't have this problem when installing the
packages de nouveau with the upgrade to R 2.5.

The problem persists after upgrading to today's
patched R and R.app.

sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 Patched (2007-05-04 r41442)
powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"   
"methods"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
     XML
"1.7-2"

Thank you for any advice.

best,

Ken

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