I don't use Windows, but this looks like a Windows permissions issue, no? You could try moving them yourself manually or create another library directory that R can access to put them in.
... or wait and hope for advice from someone who uses Windows to give you a definitive answer. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Hope you are doing great. I am currently using R version 3.4.1 ("Single > Candle") and was trying to install packages RODBC and RODBCext using the > following steps: > > > install.packages("RODBCext") > Installing package into ‘C:/Users/PaulBernal/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > also installing the dependency ‘RODBC’ > > trying URL ' > https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/RODBC_1.3-15.zip' > Content type 'application/zip' length 831635 bytes (812 KB) > downloaded 812 KB > > trying URL ' > https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/RODBCext_0.3.1.zip > ' > Content type 'application/zip' length 276687 bytes (270 KB) > downloaded 270 KB > > package ‘RODBC’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\filedd64ac13805\RODBC’ to > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RODBC’ # I dont > understand > this Warning message I mean why was it unable to move a previous > installation? > package ‘RODBCext’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\ > filedd6447315795\RODBCext’ > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RODBCext’ > > The downloaded binary packages are in > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpk7SkD5\downloaded_packages > > > library("RODBC") > Error in library("RODBC") : there is no package called ‘RODBC’ > > > library("RODBCext") > Error in library("RODBCext") : there is no package called ‘RODBCext’ > > If packages RODBC and RODBCext were successfully installed, why am I not > able to load those packages? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, > > Paul > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.