> From: Uwe Ligges > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > 3. Martin's comment > > > Are you running another version of R simultaneously? > > > IIRC, Windoze has the nice feature to sometimes lock > files when > > > it shouldn't. > > isn't the problem. I have two Rgui and one iESS [R] > running and all three > > have loaded the Hmisc and multcomp packages. > > Maybe, but after you have loaded the package, you cannot > overwrite it, > because the dll files are locked (yes, dlls are locked when > in use under > Windows). So Martin's analysis was correct. > Therefore you have to detach those packages you want to re-install or > update (and also close all chm documentation - or even better close > corresponding instances of R). > > Uwe > > > Rich
In `older' versions of R on Windows, detach()ing a package that contains dll does not unload (or at least unlock) the dll. I have not tried the current version. It's much safer to quit _all_ instances of R, restart, and re-install the packages. Pre-compiled packages for Windows can be installed in sort of four ways: 1. The Rgui menu 2. install.packages() from the R prompt 3. Download the zip file and unpack in the desired directory 4. Download the zip file and use install.packages(..., CRAN=NULL) For #3 above, link.html.help() should be run at the R prompt post-unzip. HTH, Andy ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
