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Hi,<br>
I receive an error message when I try to update a package.<br>
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this is the output from the configure packages (update tab) tool:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> install.packages (pkgs=c
("pcalg"), lib="/home/peppe/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10",
destdir="/home/peppe/.rkward/package_archive")</p>
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this is the error message:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Copyright (C) 2009 The R
Foundation for Statistical Computing</p>
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'licence()' for distribution details.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> Natural language support but
running in an English locale</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">also installing the dependencies
‘abind’, ‘corpcor’</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Error in download.packages(pkgs,
destdir = tmpd, available = available, : </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 'destdir' is not a directory</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Calls: install.packages ->
download.packages</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Execution halted</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Installation process died with exit
code 1<br>
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style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000"><br>
Thanks for your answer.<br>
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style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000"><br>
Saluti.<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000">Peppe<br>
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