Yet another clarification: [snip]
>> (4) Did not work for me: build R on D: >> --- a Vista / Windows 7 issue? >> In the end I succeeded with my build on drive C: (NTFS formatted) >> giving the current user full access privileges to the installation >> folders; before, in order to circumvent these privilege issues, >> I tried building R on a different drive (D:) which in my case is >> formatted as FAT32; somehow I got stuck with this, though; >> (my Rtools are on C:). Is this a known issue /can you reproduce this? > > I build R and packages on d:/ without any problems. I do not think that > the drive letter is the issues here. It may be some new MS security > policy on FAT drives - or whatever. I have not used FAT formatted drives > for serious work for at least a decade now. At the end of the day, after having set the "right" TMPDIR environment variable and copied the Tcl folder as indicated in R-admin.html, it was /not/ a FAT32 issue: I managed to build it now on D:\ (although I agree with Uwe that this is probably not what you want to do if NTFS works...) best, Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
