Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM, hadley wickham wrote: >> Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library?  It >> could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and >> failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. > > One possible reason for failure is that your

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jim Burke wrote: > I think your are using R 2.10.0. > No, I was using 2.9 and updating to 2.10 solved it for me. - Mark __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read t

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, hadley wickham wrote: (quoting Duncan Murdoch without attribution, tut tut) Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library?  It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possibl

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/29/2009 12:58 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library? It could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker preve

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread hadley wickham
> Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library?  It > could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and > failed, and that's why it doesn't exist. One possible reason for failure is that your virus checker prevented the R installer from creating a new di

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Jim Burke
I think your are using R 2.10.0. I get similar messages when I have too many resources in use. Like FireFox eating memory and CPU. When you get this message go look in your R installation "library" subdirectory. You will see a weird number as a folder name. Under that folder is the package you

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Duncan. 2.10 seems to install things correctly. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try. > > Thanks, > Mark > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, O

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongP

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. >> Windows Vista > > normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName > to clean up paths, and

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and GetLongPathName to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw. Does that path exist on y

Re: [R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try. Thanks, Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch >> wrote: >>> >>> On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: What is the problem here?

[R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu. Windows Vista trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/mvtnorm_0.9-8.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 236089 bytes (230 Kb) opened URL downloaded 230 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkele