R help - Mar 2004 - Installing packages

> local({a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE),
.libPaths()[1], available=a)})
trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length
16079 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 15Kb

trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.8/fdim_1.0-2.zip'
Content type `application/zip' length 71062 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 69Kb

Error in int.unzip(zipname, NULL, dest) : destination
does not exist

--- "Andrew C. Ward" <acward at uqconnect.net.au>
wrote:
> You won't have to type anything if you install CRAN
> packages through the menu system (Packages->Install
> package(s) from CRAN..). Failing that, please tell
> us more about what the error was.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew C. Ward
> 
> 56 Azalea Crescent
> Fitzgibbon Qld 4018
> acward at uqconnect.net.au
> 
> 
> On Saturday, March 06, 2004 3:47 PM, Fred J. 
> [SMTP:phddas at yahoo.com] wrote:

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 13:30:25 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>Error in int.unzip(zipname, NULL, dest) : destination
>does not exist
>
R tries to build a temporary directory to hold the files, and it
sounds as though it's failing when it does that.  You can see the sort
of name it is trying to use with this command:
> tempfile(,.libPaths()[1])
[1] "F:/R/cvs/r-devel/library\\file27447"

If you don't have permission to create a directory with that name,
then the command will fail.  I'd guess that's your problem.

The way around this is to install the library in a local path, instead
of one where you don't have write access.  You can do this within a
session by calling

.libPaths('c:/newpath')

and on the command line that invoked R by adding the argument
"R_LIBS=c:/newpath".

Notice the use of the forward slash, not a backslash, in the path
name.

Duncan Murdoch