[R] Keep on getting message errors when trying to install and load packages

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Paul,

Maybe some of the packages were installed by a user with admin rights
and you are installing them with a user how has no admin rights. Thus
you have no rights to remove the files created by the admin user.

We made clear to our IT departement that they only may install R and
not additional packages. We also tell them to set the environment
variable R_LIBS_USER to C:/R/library and make sure that the user has
full rights to that folder. All user installed packages will go in
that folder. A side effect is that all packages remain available after
an upgrade of R.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus/ Statiscian

Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE
AND FOREST
Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
thierry.onkelinx op inbo.be
Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussel
www.inbo.be

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2017-09-20 16:16 GMT+02:00 Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 op gmail.com>:
> Dear R friends,
>
> I am currently using Windows 8, 64-bit operating system, x64-based
> processor. I have installed R version 3.4.1 "Single Candle".
>
> Also, I have several packages installed in this path:
>
> C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4
>
> Plus some other packages installed in this other path:
>
> C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\R Books
> C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\RPackagesNEW
>
>
> And I have installed R in the following path:
>
> C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.1
>
> Whenever I try to install an R package the following error messages are
> displayed in the R console:
>
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f747105765\readstata13’
> to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’
>
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f744781797d\Hmisc’ to
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’
>
> package ‘readr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package ‘hms’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f742a8422fe\hms’ to
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\hms’
> package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7456645222\Hmisc’ to
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’
> package ‘haven’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f746f04773d\haven’ to
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\haven’
> package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f741507f27\readstata13’
> to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’
> package ‘readxl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f74271b1a7a\readxl’
> to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readxl’
> package ‘RcmdrMisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: unable to move temporary installation
> ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7419e243c1\RcmdrMisc’
> to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RcmdrMisc’
>
> Do I have to put all the packages in the same path where I installed R?
> Could this be happening because I have packages installed in several
> folders with several paths? Should I consolidate and put all packages in a
> single location?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
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