R help - Apr 2009 - _Possible_ work-round for normalizePath error (was Re: [Rd] Package (PR#13475))

>>> Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 04/10/09 4:21
PM >>>
>Well, you need to ask Symantec to fix Norton, hence this is the 
>wrong address.
That would not help other R users who were looking in the archives for
help with what looked like a mysterious normalizePath error, would it?

As I said, the principal intent of the posting was to point to a
possible work-round for other R users - i.e. temporarily disabling
on-access scanning in the antivirus package. 

But that would have been better posted to R-help, so it's now cc'd there
with the original posting below in case anyone else out there can use
the tip.

 S
> 
S Ellison wrote:
> I had the same normalizePath error recently on a new laptop, with a
fresh
> install of R 2.8.1 and an attempt to install lme4. First attempt:
> package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in normalizePath(path) :
>   path[1]: The system cannot find the file specified
>
> Second attempt:
>
> package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'mlmRev' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'MEMSS' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Error in normalizePath(path) :
>   path[1]: The system cannot find the file specified
>
>
> The irreproducibility made me wonder... so I turned off Norton's
> auto-protect, which has a habit of scanning files on the fly when
requested
> and that often delays file opening. The error disappeared, at least
that
> once and for subsequent installations of NADA and the much larger
rggobi
> install.
>
> The main reason for logging this post is to suggest a posible cause
and
> workround. But if it does turn out to be a consistent issue, perhaps
it
> would be worth checking for timeout issues related to normalizePath or
> related routines in a future update?
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