Thnaks a lot, Duncan! Running R as administrator solved the problem! Dimitri
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/10/2010 8:58 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I've just installed R 2.11.1 on my new home PC. Just the base R. My PC >> has Windows 7. >> R was installed in C / Program Files (x86) / R - R-2.11.1 >> >> Then - through the menue - I went to Update packages, chose the mirror >> and R detected the few packages that needed to be updated. After I >> clicked on OK I got the following error message: >> >> > update.packages(ask='graphics') >> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- >> Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, >> contriburl = contriburl, : >> 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~2/R/R-211~1.1/library"' is not writable >> Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, >> contriburl = contriburl, : >> unable to install packages >> >> I've tried several times, then uninstalled R and reinstalled it. Same >> problem. >> Can it be because R is installed in Program Files (x86) and not in >> Program Files (I have both folders)? > > I think both have the same problem: Windows 7 won't let R write to them. > If you install R in your own file space, or you set up your own library > there, or you run R as an administrator when you want to install packages, > the problem should go away. > > Duncan Murdoch > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com ______________________________________________ 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.
