[R] Issues with TMPDIR/TEMP/TMP? Failure of R CMD check under Windows 7

[Jeff Newmiller]

If you do reinstall, I recommend not using administrator mode at all. Let the install program trigger a request for password to enable the install, and run R as a normal user, doing your work in subdirectories of your Documents directory. Running as administrator is like heroin... any problems it solves it replaces with worse problems.
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"Ulrike Grömping" <groemping at bht-berlin.de> wrote:

>Am 24.02.2013 22:14, schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
>> On 13-02-24 4:00 PM, Ulrike Grömping wrote:
>>> Dear helpeRs,
>>>
>>> on my Windows 7 laptop, I have problems getting R CMD check to work.
>I
>>> believe it did work completely before, but I am not sure.
>>>
>>> Yesterday it almost worked, except for the tests: These were aborted
>>> because of a complaint that the temporary directory wasn't
>available. I
>>> played with windows environment variables for the temporary
>directory,
>>> but that didn't solve it. Apparently I did something that made
>things 
>>> worse:
>>>
>>> Today, R CMD check completely refuses to work, with the error
>message
>>> "Fatal error: creation of tmpfile failed -- set TMPDIR suitably?"
>This
>>> is the same for current R and R-devel. Changes to the TEMP or TMP
>>> environment variable don't influence this behavior.
>>>
>>> The path:
>>> C:\Rtools;C:\Program Files\Dell\DW WLAN Card;C:\Program
>>
>> With the default install, there are no executables in C:\Rtools. They
>
>> are normally in C:\Rtools\bin and C:\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin. But this 
>> probably isn't causing the problem.  It sounds as though you've set 
>> the temporary directory to something that doesn't exist, or somewhere
>
>> you're not allowed to write.
>>
>> Can you still start R?  If so, what does tempdir() show?  Mine shows
>>
>> [1] "C:\\temp\\RtmpGeoCGq"
>>
>> The random bit at the end would be different for each session. The 
>> part before needs to be a path in which you have write permission.
>Actually, I can't start R any more (Error: mkdir R_TempDir does not 
>work). And it appears that changing the TEMP and TMP environment 
>variables in Windows does not really affect the choice of TempDir in R
>? 
>Yesterday, the complaint was always related to a random directory name 
>within the default temporary directory, and there are many such 
>directories in that path (I would have thought that these are deleted 
>when shutting the machine down, but apparently the are not), so there 
>must have been write permission in there once. Today everything is 
>different, perhaps because of something I did yesterday but don't 
>remember any more.
>
>If all else fails, I suppose the fastest thing may be a complete 
>re-install of R.
>
>Best, Ulrike
>
>>
>>>
>Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
>
>>>
>>> Files\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x86;C:\Program
>Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth
>>> Software\;C:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
>>> 2.9\miktex\bin\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
>>>
>>> Any ideas what I can do to fix this?
>>> Perhaps also relevant: I run R CMD check from a DOS window that is
>>> opened with administrator rights.
>>
>> You should start R from the same window, using just "R" or "Rgui" to 
>> make sure it sees the same environment.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>> Best, Ulrike
>>>
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