[R] update.packages() error R 3.4.0

[Bert Gunter]

Please see previous messages from today concerning this.

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Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having the same problem - just installed R 3.4.0 on my Windows
> laptop. Same thing with packages - exactly the same error.
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Robert Baer <rbaer at atsu.edu> wrote:
>> Is there an easy work-around for the update.packages error I'm getting on
>> Windows 10 with R 3.4.0?
>>
>>> update.packages()
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> foreign :
>>  Version 0.8-67 installed in C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.0/library
>>  Version 0.8-68 available at https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/CRAN
>> Update (y/N/c)?  y
>> Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, repos =
>> repos,  :
>>   'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.0/library"' is not writable
>> Error in if (file.exists(dest) && file.mtime(dest) > file.mtime(lib) &&  :
>>   missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>>
>> --
>>
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