[R] maps does not work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think the problem is that tempdir() has been set somewhere invalid.
However, does help() work at all, since that uses the same mechanism?

Here are some diagnostic hints:

Start an R session, printout tempdir() and see if it looks right.  Search 
for the directory on your file system and see if you can create a file in 
it. If it is on a remote file system there could well be permission 
issues.

See ?tempdir and set (or unset) environment variables to change tempdir() 
to somewhere else you know is valid.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Lukas Gudmundsson wrote:

> 2007/10/11, Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg at mcs.vuw.ac.nz>:
>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Lukas Gudmundsson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am trying to draw geographical maps with the maps package. However
>>>
>>> if I try to access the data following error occurs:
>>>> require(maps)
>>>> map()
>>>
>>> Fehler in zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip") :
>>>   'destination' existiert nicht
>>> # Error in zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip") : 'destination' does not
>>> exist
>>>
>>>> traceback()
>>>
>>> 4: zip.file.extract(file, "Rdata.zip")
>>> 3: data(list = dbname)
>>> 2: maptype(database)
>>> 1: map()
>>>
>>> To check if I have principle problems with my system I tried:
>>>> require(mapdata)
>>>> map('worldHires', col=1:10)
>>>
>>> # Works
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running R 2.6.0 and a current version of maps. But I had a
>>> similar problem with R 2.5.1
>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Lukas
>>>
>> You don't say which OS you are using and I can't reproduce this on Windows so
>> it is hard to give explicit recommendations, but what if you try running:
>> R --vanilla
>> then:
>> library(maps); map()
>>
>> Alternately, try:
>> map("world")
>>
>> I suspect you have something in your workspace or your environment that is
>> clashing.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>
> First at all thanks a lot for the reply and sorry for the incomplete
> informations:
> OS: Windows XP, SP2, version 2002
> The computer is connected to a network with several data servers
> (uni). R is installed locally at the default location. I have an user
> and an admin account for this computer. As the problem I have seams
> not to be common a short history of what I have done so far (without
> success):
>
> 1. Installed the package using the admin login at the default location
>
> 2. Installed the package from the usr account into R_LIBS_USER (C:\RLIBS)
>
> 3. I have tried to dig into the error using options(error=recover). I
> did not get to far but
> file == "C:/RLIBS/maps/data/worldMapEnv.r".
> I had a look at the zip file in "C:/RLIBS/maps/data". It contains
> worldMapEnv.r (but as I do not really understand the package
> architecture I can not interpret its single line contents (worldMapEnv
> <- "R_MAP_DATA_DIR"))
>
> 4. If I am trying to run any thing like example(lm) I am getting the
> same error in zip.file.extract (but so far i did not care)
>
> 5. I tried to call R from the DOS box using R --vanilla but that did
> not work either
>
> 6. I reinstalled maps form several CRAN mirrors
>
> 7. I tried to run maps on my private computer at home and that did
> work... which increases the confusion.
>
> again thanks for any help!
>
> Lukas
>
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