I wish I were a more knowledgeable computer weenie, but I'm just an amateur beta-testing the Vista OS.
Since I could install R easily from CRAN but the packages balked with the default security settings but installed without incident when I turned the User Account Control off, I would guess that it's the OS, not R. Does the base installation use chm files? Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Clint Bowman'; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages [moved to R-devel] Thanks for the report. It would be interesting to know if the package installation fails because of chm files or because you are trying to install stuff into a directory with insufficient permissions even for other files. If we are supposed packages in a different way for Vista, it would be nice to be able (i.e. knowing what to do) to apply relevant changes before the next major release (R-2.5.0?). Best, Uwe Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > Problem solved! > > Thanks to all and especially Clint Bowman and Uwe Ligges who pointed to the > fly in the ointment, viz. Vista's "User Account Control," UAC. > > To allow installation of R packages, you must open the Vista Control Panel > and choose Windows Security Center. Then turn the UAC off. This will > require a restart of the computer. After the computer restarts and you > summon R, packages can be installed from CRAN in the usual way. After > installation you can reassert the UAC which also requires a computer > restart. Vista starts up about 5X faster than my 3 year old Windows XP > machine, so the restarts are not onerous. > > Many thanks to you all! > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint Bowman > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:59 PM > To: Charles Annis, P.E. > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages > > This week's eweek has an article on Vista's security and system > administration--I'm guessing (a Linux user guess) that you are running > afoul of Vista's User Account Control feature. > > Clint Bowman INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Air Dispersion Modeler INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Air Quality Program VOICE: (360) 407-6815 > Department of Ecology FAX: (360) 407-7534 > > USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 > Parcels: 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > >> I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4 >> year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig. It was a clean install - > R >> is the only non-MS program running. >> >> I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files. (I have >> R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the >> difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together >> nicely as they should.) >> >> The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without > incident, >> but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error >> message: >> >> >>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs() >> trying URL >> > 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip >> ' >> Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes >> opened URL >> downloaded 38Kb >> >> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program >> Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm' >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. >> >> >> Charles Annis, P.E. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> phone: 561-352-9699 >> eFax: 614-455-3265 >> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
