Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson <at> ucsf.edu> writes: > I don't want to rub it in more, but whatever dark forces are upon > you, they'd have a hard time preventing you from installing R to > your user account, which requires minimal privileges(*). > > Just wanted to make sure you're aware of your options > > /Henrik > > (*) The R Windows installer detects and adjusts for this > automatically. The only things I can think of that prevents this > approach is that the computer is completely disconnected from the > world, users have extremely limited disk space, the user account is > wiped at every login, ... what else? Also, AFAIK, the only thing > you miss out on is that R won't be added to the Windows Registry > meaning .RData files are not associated with R, but that's a very > low price to pay considered it's a better option than Cygwin.
It's simply not allowed. However, as I said, this is being worked out. It is *very* useful to know that when things work out, it *can* be installed as non-administrator. That would be infinitely less headache. Thanks. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
