2007/10/11, Ray Brownrigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Lukas Gudmundsson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to draw geographical maps with the maps package. However > > > > if I try to access the data following error occurs: > > > require(maps) > > > map() > > > > Fehler in zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip") : > > 'destination' existiert nicht > > # Error in zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip") : 'destination' does not > > exist > > > > > traceback() > > > > 4: zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip") > > 3: data(list = dbname) > > 2: maptype(database) > > 1: map() > > > > To check if I have principle problems with my system I tried: > > > require(mapdata) > > > map('worldHires', col=1:10) > > > > # Works > > > > > > I am running R 2.6.0 and a current version of maps. But I had a > > similar problem with R 2.5.1 > > Is this a known issue? > > > > thanks > > Lukas > > > You don't say which OS you are using and I can't reproduce this on Windows so > it is hard to give explicit recommendations, but what if you try running: > R --vanilla > then: > library(maps); map() > > Alternately, try: > map("world") > > I suspect you have something in your workspace or your environment that is > clashing. > > Ray >
First at all thanks a lot for the reply and sorry for the incomplete informations: OS: Windows XP, SP2, version 2002 The computer is connected to a network with several data servers (uni). R is installed locally at the default location. I have an user and an admin account for this computer. As the problem I have seams not to be common a short history of what I have done so far (without success): 1. Installed the package using the admin login at the default location 2. Installed the package from the usr account into R_LIBS_USER (C:\RLIBS) 3. I have tried to dig into the error using options(error=recover). I did not get to far but file == "C:/RLIBS/maps/data/worldMapEnv.r". I had a look at the zip file in "C:/RLIBS/maps/data". It contains worldMapEnv.r (but as I do not really understand the package architecture I can not interpret its single line contents (worldMapEnv <- "R_MAP_DATA_DIR")) 4. If I am trying to run any thing like example(lm) I am getting the same error in zip.file.extract (but so far i did not care) 5. I tried to call R from the DOS box using R --vanilla but that did not work either 6. I reinstalled maps form several CRAN mirrors 7. I tried to run maps on my private computer at home and that did work... which increases the confusion. again thanks for any help! Lukas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.