R Keeps Downloading Packages to tmp Directory

r install.packages
cburghard picture cburghard · Feb 4, 2015 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I am using R Studio on a 2103 MacBook Pro. I had no problems before downloading and installing packages, but recently all my packages are being downloaded and then fail to install:

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/manipulate_1.0.1.tgz' 
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 33770 bytes (32 Kb) 
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 32 Kb

The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/yl/7q0_4h3j60d5pp52vmz0b06r0000gn/T//Rtmpa4oYSr/downloaded_packages

.libPath() returns the correct location of my R libraries (not this)

I can install manually from the downloaded package, but this extra step is Very Annoying, and I would like to restore the correct behavior.

Someone seems to have had the same problem here. The solution was to add more swap space. This does not seem to be my issue as ample swap and RAM appear to be available on my machine.

Has anyone had and resolved this issue?

Answer

TheGameiswar picture TheGameiswar · Jul 5, 2016

Posting the Answer from the user so as not to lose info:

When you download r Packages,R shows the temp path where the files are downloaded like below...

The downloaded binary packages are in /var/folders/yl/7q0_4h3j60d5pp52vmz0b06r0000gn/T//Rtmpa4oYSr/downloaded_packages

But R deletes these files in Temp folders and install them in .libpath() path once the installation is done..

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