Thank you for your help. It seems like there was an issue with the libPath. The path is setup to reference a cached copy of a shared drive and somehow the cache and the shared drive were not synching. I finally located the real place (i.e. the cached area) where R was looking and manually removed everything.
Thanks again, Pooya. -----Original Message----- From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:26 PM To: Pooya Lalehzari Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] xts zoo "cannot remove prior installation of package" On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Pooya Lalehzari wrote: > Hello, > Some how, my xts/zoo package ran into trouble. I tried to re-install the > packages, I get an error that it cannot remove the prior installation. > I uninstalled R and the deleted all the libraries and reinstalled everything > fresh. It still complains the same thing. I try to remove.packages("zoo"), it > tells me there is no such package. I am really baffled. Does anyone know how > to fix this problem? If you look at the help page for remove.packages(), it states that the second argument is taken to be the first element in .libPaths(). You have not told us what .libPaths() is returning and you should do so (even though it wasn't mentioned in the Posting Guide.) It seems possible that you set up an additonal library location which your new installation of R is "finding" but which is not the first item in the list of directories with library entries. I have found that having two locations for libraries is an annoyance, and have removed all "user library" locations. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > 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. Let me second Prof. Ripley's suggestion that you do more reading of the /listinfo/ page and the Posting Guide. -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA THIS E-MAIL IS FOR THE SOLE USE OF THE INTENDED RECIPIENT(S) AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. ANY UNAUTHORIZED REVIEW, USE, DISCLOSURE OR DISTRIBUTION IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, PLEASE CONTACT THE SENDER BY REPLY E-MAIL AND DESTROY ALL COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL E-MAIL. ______________________________________________ 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.
