Hello, everybody I have R 2.5.1 now installed on a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. I have problems updating the packages. Here is what I get at the prompt when I try to update:
> update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/car_1.2-2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 709592 bytes opened URL downloaded 692Kb trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/lattice_0.16-5.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 873537 bytes opened URL downloaded 853Kb package 'car' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package 'lattice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\Users\Sergey\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpbQJHsb\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.1/library"' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : unable to install packages > What can be wrong? I already deleted R and its folder and installed it fresh. Same problem. On an XP machine this never happened. :-( Thank you for your help. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
