On 9/18/07, Vladimir Eremeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sergey Goriatchev wrote: > > > > 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: > > [...] > > 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 > > > > The function has written you what was wrong. > "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.1/library"' was not writable > > You should install new packages either running R with administrator > privilegies, or installing them to another directory, writable for ordinary > user. >
On my Vista system I placed R in %userprofile%\Documents\R\R-2.6.0 and it works ok. I imagine that placing it in C:\R\R-2.6.0 would work too but would have to try it. Actually even C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0 works for me provided the user library is in %userprofile%\R\win-library\2.6 which is where R 2.6.0 tries to put it but not if I try to use c:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0\library It was mainly building packages that caused me a problem (which I gather you are not currently doing -- only installing them from binary) in my initial setup which is why I moved R to its current location. I also put the source directories for my packages in %userprofile%\R By the way, if you want to switch between several versions of R that are all on your system RSetReg.exe must be run elevated. In http://batchfiles.googlecode.com there is a Windows javascript program, Rversions.hta, which I have updated to work on Vista and will do that. Run it from Windows command line without args. See the README. You can download it directly here: http://batchfiles.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Rversions.hta I have found it useful while trying different versions of R on my Vista system. ______________________________________________ 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.
