Problem installing packages.
Please look in the archives: in particular the *current* R-patched version does not do that and this has been discussed within the last week in a thread started by Erich Neuwirth.
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
Hello, R users: I got the following problem when I try to install some packages using the 2.1.0 patched version on Window$. This is only an example. The same happens when I try to install ade4. (it download the packages and their dependency, but when it finish to download it shows the same error)
utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/CoCo_0.1.6.5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 1895592 bytes opened URL downloaded 1851Kb package 'CoCo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked bundle 'CoCo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in sprintf(gettext("unable to move temp installation '%d' to '%s'"), : use format %s for character objects
What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help. Kenneth
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