Installation of R-package “BH” not possible

Question

I cannot install the R-package BH which I need only to install dplyr afterwards.

The download works but something is wrong with the processing afterwards, as there i

Answer 1

I had this problem -- there were two parts to my fix.

1/ Download the windows binary from CRAN and save to the hard disk. You then select the menu item: Packages >> Install package(s) from local files…

2/ Edit the utils:::unpackPkgZip function to increase the sleep time – so that my virus checker has time to scan it. To implement this, do the following:

trace(utils:::unpackPkgZip, edit=TRUE)

Look for the line Sys.sleep(0.5), toward the bottom of the body of the function; it's a big package so I went for Sys.sleep(10).

If you are still seeing the error: Warning: unable to move temporary installation, try a longer sleep period.

Note that you won't see the edit if you check utils:::unpackPkgZip; that is the unedited version, and it can be restored via untrace(utils:::unpackPkgZip).

So see the edited version, use body(utils:::unpackPkgZip).