I don't know if detecting timeouts is feasible. There are two problems. The
first is being able to tell that failing to find the file was a timeout
problem. The second is distinguishing timeouts due to antivirus software from
timeouts due to, eg, missing network connections, where giving up quickly is
better than hanging indefinitely.
-thomas
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:
S Ellison wrote:
I had the same normalizePath error recently on a new laptop, with a fresh
install of R 2.8.1 and an attempt to install lme4. First attempt:
package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]: The system cannot find the file
specified
Second attempt:
package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'mlmRev' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'MEMSS' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]: The system cannot find the file
specified
The irreproducibility made me wonder... so I turned off Norton's
auto-protect, which has a habit of scanning files on the fly when requested
and that often delays file opening. The error disappeared, at least that
once and for subsequent installations of NADA and the much larger rggobi
install.
The main reason for logging this post is to suggest a posible cause and
workround. But if it does turn out to be a consistent issue, perhaps it
would be worth checking for timeout issues related to normalizePath or
related routines in a future update?
Well, you need to ask Symantec to fix Norton, hence this is the wrong address.
Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges
S
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote:
On 1/27/2009 10:15 AM, partho_bhowm...@ml.com wrote:
Full_Name: Partho Bhowmick
Version: 2.8.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (199.43.48.131)
While trying to install package sn (I have tried multiple mirrors),
I get the following message
trying URL
'http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/sn_0.4-10.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 320643 bytes (313 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 313 Kb
package 'sn' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]: The system cannot find the
file specified
It works for me. I suspect it's a permission problem or something similar
on your system.
Duncan Murdoch
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