Hi Paul, I recently ran into file path conflicts and found the following useful (looks like you already know the answer to 1.):
1. Use .libPaths() to find where packages are being stored. 2. To change this path: Control Panel > search “View advanced system settings” > Environment Variables *button *> a. *Edit* current R_LIBS_USER to new file path b. *New* R_LIBS_USER with desired file path 3. Restart machine. Good luck! Leslie On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > Dear Paul, > > Maybe some of the packages were installed by a user with admin rights > and you are installing them with a user how has no admin rights. Thus > you have no rights to remove the files created by the admin user. > > We made clear to our IT departement that they only may install R and > not additional packages. We also tell them to set the environment > variable R_LIBS_USER to C:/R/library and make sure that the user has > full rights to that folder. All user installed packages will go in > that folder. A side effect is that all packages remain available after > an upgrade of R. > > Best regards, > > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Statisticus/ Statiscian > > Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders > INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE > AND FOREST > Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussel > www.inbo.be > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////////////////////////// > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no > more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be > able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does > not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body > of data. ~ John Tukey > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////////////////////////// > > > Van 14 tot en met 19 december 2017 verhuizen we uit onze vestiging in > Brussel naar het Herman Teirlinckgebouw op de site Thurn & Taxis. > Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 > Brussel. > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////////////////////////// > > > > 2017-09-20 16:16 GMT+02:00 Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com>: > > Dear R friends, > > > > I am currently using Windows 8, 64-bit operating system, x64-based > > processor. I have installed R version 3.4.1 "Single Candle". > > > > Also, I have several packages installed in this path: > > > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4 > > > > Plus some other packages installed in this other path: > > > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\R Books > > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\RPackagesNEW > > > > > > And I have installed R in the following path: > > > > C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.1 > > > > Whenever I try to install an R package the following error messages are > > displayed in the R console: > > > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\ > file2f747105765\readstata13’ > > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ > > > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f744781797d\Hmisc’ > to > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ > > > > package ‘readr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > package ‘hms’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f742a8422fe\hms’ > to > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\hms’ > > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7456645222\Hmisc’ > to > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ > > package ‘haven’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f746f04773d\haven’ > to > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\haven’ > > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\ > file2f741507f27\readstata13’ > > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ > > package ‘readxl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\ > file2f74271b1a7a\readxl’ > > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readxl’ > > package ‘RcmdrMisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > Warning: unable to move temporary installation > > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\ > file2f7419e243c1\RcmdrMisc’ > > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RcmdrMisc’ > > > > Do I have to put all the packages in the same path where I installed R? > > Could this be happening because I have packages installed in several > > folders with several paths? Should I consolidate and put all packages in > a > > single location? > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, > > > > Cheers, > > > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. 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