From mike.prager at mhprager.com  Wed May 12 00:21:01 2010
From: mike.prager at mhprager.com (Mike Prager)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:21:01 -0400
Subject: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found
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On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in 
>R-devel, revision 51980 or later.  (A build of this revision should be 
>on CRAN by tomorrow, at 
>http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html .)
>
Thanks for trying to fix this. Here is a cut-and-paste [...edited]
from Rgui.exe.  Hope it helps.  MHP


R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-05-11 r51980)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0  [...]

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

[...]
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: stats
Loading required package: utils
Loading required package: graphics
Loading required package: splines

Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
[...]

> update.packages(ask='graphics')
trying URL [...]
downloaded 1.0 Mb

package 'maps' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'c:\Program
Files\R\Library\file390c7e87\rJava' to 'c:\Program
Files\R\Library\rJava'
package 'strucchange' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'svMisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'tkrplot' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'vcd' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        C:\Documents and Settings\mike.prager\Local
Settings\Temp\RtmpyrBgXD\downloaded_packages
Warning message:
In normalizePath(path) :
  path[1]="c:\Program Files\R\Library/rJava": The system cannot find
the file specified
> traceback()
No traceback available 
>



[Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found
Mike Prager