Difficulty loading packages into R version 2.12.0

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Dear R-users

I wonder if I could get advice on the above problem

I have just installed V 2.12.0 (I chose only the 32-bit version) into a new
directory (C:/R)  on a 64bit Windows 7 machine

sessionInfo()

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.12.0

I have loaded (from a zip file in my repository, due to an Institutional
fire-wall) the package "forecast":

utils:::menuInstallLocal()

package 'forecast' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

I get the following message when attempting to load the package:

local({pkg<- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =

TRUE)),graphics=TRUE)
+ if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
Error: package 'forecast' is not installed for 'arch=i386'

There has been a similar query (November 11th ) on this, but I seem to not
have the suggested problem as:

.libPaths()

[1] "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library" and "forecast" is in the above directory (and no
other)

Directions on this problem would be much appreciated

john moran

john.moran at adelaide.edu.au