Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Prager
Bill, Thanks. The problem is common but not consistent on update. I'll wait a few days for packages to be updated at CRAN, then try it. Mike On Wed, 12 May 2010 08:49:42 -0700, "William Dunlap" wrote: > If you have the time and can consistently reproduce >this problem you might try using S

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/05/2010 12:42 PM, Mike Prager wrote: Shortened a bit further. Answers to queries are at the end. MHP Duncan Murdoch wrote on 5/11/2010 7:03 PM: > On 11/05/2010 6:21 PM, Mike Prager wrote: >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch >> wrote: >>> I'd appreciate it if you could c

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Prager
Shortened a bit further. Answers to queries are at the end. MHP Duncan Murdoch wrote on 5/11/2010 7:03 PM: On 11/05/2010 6:21 PM, Mike Prager wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in R-devel, revision

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-12 Thread William Dunlap
TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Mike Prager > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:21 PM > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] update.packages fails w

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2010 6:21 PM, Mike Prager wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in R-devel, revision 51980 or later. (A build of this revision should be on CRAN by tomorrow, at http://cran.r-project.org/

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Mike Prager
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in >R-devel, revision 51980 or later. (A build of this revision should be >on CRAN by tomorrow, at >http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html .) > Thanks fo

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I've now also committed a change to the file.rename code (on Windows) so that it waits for the file copy to complete before returning. It seems possible that it was returning too early, so the next step of the install failed. I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread peter dalgaard
On May 11, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Georgi Boshnakov wrote: > I posted a similar problem to this list but had no response. > The full email is copied below. Well, things sometimes just fly by > > In a nutshell, I traced the message to normalizePath, > which issues it. The directory does not exis

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2010 6:35 AM, Georgi Boshnakov wrote: I posted a similar problem to this list but had no response. The full email is copied below. Thanks for reposting this. I didn't see the original (I was travelling at the time). In a nutshell, I traced the message to normalizePath, which issu

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
I posted a similar problem to this list but had no response. The full email is copied below. In a nutshell, I traced the message to normalizePath, which issues it. The directory does not exist because a "move/rename directory" command, issued at the end of the installation, failed. The direct

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
Bill, Not in my case. The Indexing Service is disabled on my PC. MHP William Dunlap wrote on 5/10/2010 10:42 AM: Someone once suggested this error happened was due to the Windows 'Indexing Service' (sp?) delaying the commital of a request to rename a directory (so a subsequent request to use

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
[New material at end] Duncan Murdoch wrote on 5/10/2010 9:33 AM: On 10/05/2010 8:28 AM, Mike Prager wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread William Dunlap
ire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Mike Prager > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 5:28 AM > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] update.packages fa

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/05/2010 8:28 AM, Mike Prager wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, the

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/05/2010 8:28 AM, Mike Prager wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, then I >> get a failure like >> >> >> package 'm

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, then I >> get a failure like >> >> >> package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums c

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Mike Prager wrote: Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, then I get a failure like package 'mvtnorm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'party' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package '