BTW - I did not install it in any special Windows area - I installed it wherever the default too me.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > See > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Does-R-run-under-Windows-Vista_003f > > which does cover this. Most likely you need to 'Run as Administrator'. > > There's lot of other useful information in that FAQ that you would do to > familiarize yourself with. > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, 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)? > > Not at all, assuming you installed a 32-bit version of R (you didn't tell > us). It *is* because you installed in a special Windows area. > >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- 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.
