From Walke at demogr.mpg.de  Fri Aug 13 08:39:52 2004
From: Walke at demogr.mpg.de (Walke, Rainer)
Date: Fri Aug 13 08:39:56 2004
Subject: [Rd] (PR#7163) Install packages does not work on Win2003 serv er
Message-ID: <3699CDBC4ED5D511BE6400306E1C0D81074CBBFD@hermes.demogr.mpg.de>



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Uwe Ligges [SMTP:ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:38 PM
> To:	Walke, Rainer
> Cc:	R-devel
> Subject:	Re: [Rd] (PR#7163) Install packages does not work on Win2003
> server
> 
> Walke, Rainer wrote:
> 
> > 	>a) It works for me.
> > 	>b) If it works for you on some Windows versions but not on others,
> > why 
> > 	>do you think it is a bug in R?
> > 
> > 	It is the first of our application that shows this problem. At least
> > as far as I know.
> > 	The installation of R works without any problem, only the addition
> > of further packages does not. What is the difference between both
> > installation parts? Of course you may ask what is the difference between
> > Windows NT and Windows XP as client system. And you may ask what is the
> > difference between a Windows NT and a Windows 2003 file server?
> > 	Is R using a piece of code that Windows XP sends wrong to a Windows
> > 2003 file server?
> > 
> > 	>Quite probably something is not set up correctly either in your 
> > 	>configuration of Windows (permissions, quota, ...) or in the 
> > 	>configuration of R (do you have set another library path to install
> > to)?
> > 
> > 	>Please tell us the way you tried to install the package.
> > 
> > 	>Uwe Ligges
> > 
> > 	What I did, was "Install packages from local zip files..."
> > interactivly.
> > 
> > 	Best,
> > 	Rainer Walke
> 
> 
	> Is the share form which R has been started mounted on a drive
letter or 
	> do you start via the UNC path?
	> Which package is it? Does it also happen for CRAN packages?
	> I guess any security setting either on the Server or the client
are 
	> blocking the installation. But it is really hard to guess what it
really 
	> is... You might want to ask your local IT stuff.

	> Uwe Ligges

	Thanks for your e-mail message. Yes, the share has been mounted on a
drive letter P.
	Unfortunately, it happens for all packages starting from abind...
	And it happens if I load a package directly from CRAN as well.
	Do you know which part of the R code creates this temporary file*
directories in the library subdirectory?

	Rainer Walke



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[Rd] (PR#7163) Install packages does not work on Win2003 serv er
Walke, Rainer