R devel - Aug 2004 - Install packages does not work on Win2003 server (PR#7163)

Full_Name: Rainer Walke
Version: 1.9.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (195.37.34.66)


I tried to install R 1.9.1 on a network share on a Windows 2003 server. This
works fine. Then I tried to add some packages. This does not work.
There is no error message. It seems to hang a while, but then the command prompt
is back, but no package has been installed.

If you check the directory rw1091\library then a temporary directory file*
appears and disappears after a minute.

If I use a Windows NT client to add the packages at a Windows 2003 server it
works.
If I use a Windows XP client to add packages at a Windows NT share it work
either.

`Windows 2003 server' is not in the list of supported OSes.  And that is 
both in the README and rw-FAQ.  So if you want to help, we need a patch 
from you -- the maintainers do not that access to such a machine.
(Well, I do, but it is a server which does not allow end users to run 
tasks.)

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 walke@demogr.mpg.de wrote:
> Full_Name: Rainer Walke
> Version: 1.9.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (195.37.34.66)
> 
> 
> I tried to install R 1.9.1 on a network share on a Windows 2003 server.
This
> works fine. Then I tried to add some packages. This does not work.
> There is no error message. It seems to hang a while, but then the command
prompt
> is back, but no package has been installed.
> 
> If you check the directory rw1091\library then a temporary directory file*
> appears and disappears after a minute.
There are many ways to install packages, both from source and binary.
Please do as the FAQ and posting guide ask, and provide a reproducible 
example.
> If I use a Windows NT client to add the packages at a Windows 2003 server
it
> works.
> If I use a Windows XP client to add packages at a Windows NT share it work
> either.
> 
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walke@demogr.mpg.de wrote:
> Full_Name: Rainer Walke
> Version: 1.9.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (195.37.34.66)
> 
> 
> I tried to install R 1.9.1 on a network share on a Windows 2003 server.
This
> works fine. Then I tried to add some packages. This does not work.
> There is no error message. It seems to hang a while, but then the command
prompt
> is back, but no package has been installed.
> 
> If you check the directory rw1091\library then a temporary directory file*
> appears and disappears after a minute.
> 
> If I use a Windows NT client to add the packages at a Windows 2003 server
it
> works.
> If I use a Windows XP client to add packages at a Windows NT share it work
> either.
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?

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

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