Warning in install.packages: unable to move temporary installation

Question

I\'ve found a number of questions related to this warning when installing or updating packages in R/RStudio, but none seem to completely match my situation:

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Answer 1

This was the error message that was spit out for me:

package ‘mlogit’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Warning in install.packages :
unable to move temporary installation ‘C:\Users\E\Documents\R\win-
library\3.4\file9ec6cfb5e40\mlogit’ to ‘C:\Users\E\Documents\R\win-
library\3.4\mlogit’

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\E\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpS0uNDm\downloaded_packages

What I did was went to where the package was downloaded (C:\Users\E\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpS0uNDm\downloaded_packages) and then copied that zipped file to the desktop then used Winzip to unzip to my file directory where all the packages for R are stored (C:\Users\E\Documents\R\win-library\3.4). It now will load in R.

library("mlogit")
Loading required package: Formula
Loading required package: maxLik
Loading required package: miscTools
....

It worked well for me as it was the only package that was not downloading for some reason. Might not be helpful if you have to do this for every package.