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jpcgandre
jpcgandre

Reputation: 1505

Error when installing R package using Rstudio

I want to install http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mecdf/ using RStudio but when I use

> install.packages('C:\\Users\\jandre\\Desktop\\mecdf_0.6.1.tar.gz', repos=NULL, type="source")

I get this error:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/jandre/Documents/R/win-library/3.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\jandre\Documents\R\win-library\3.1" "C:/Users/jandre/Desktop/mecdf_0.6.1.tar.gz"' had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/jandre/Desktop/mecdf_0.6.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

This occurs in every package I want to install using the tar.gz file. I'm on Win7 x64. RStudio Version 0.98.1028

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5387

Answers (2)

CAR
CAR

Reputation: 1

I had the same error message with the installation of some packages(under Windows 10 OS with R and Rstudio).

It seems that the R software (not R Studio) is dealing with the library where package are installed.

I uninstalled R and Rstudio and installed it a path without space (ex: C:\Program\R).I tried to load the packages that previously failed and it seemed to fix the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker

Reputation: 226761

Can't think of a way to fix this at the moment -- sorry -- but the R administration manual says explicitly:

Note that installing R into a directory whose path contains spaces is not supported, and at least some aspects (such as installing source packages) will not work.

I don't know why this doesn't bite people much more often, given that C:/Program Files/... seems like a relatively normal place to install things on Windows.

I would also expect that the double quotation marks around your R executable name ("C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.1/bin/x64/R") in the system call should have protected you from this problem ... ?

Upvotes: 4

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