Right click the R icon and choose Run As Administrator and then install the package. This is only needed for package installation if you don't have have a local library in your home tree and also is not needed for just everyday running of R.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Luciano La Sala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > New user here. I have R 2.7.1. installed, but don't have internet access in > my PC. Therefore, I downloaded the ISwR package (Introductory Statistics with > R) from CRAN and then moved it into my HD. > I can't seem to install the local package under Windows Vista system. I've > tried using the menĂº "packages" "install package(s) from local zip files...", > as suggested elsewhere. > > My .zip file is: ISwR_2.0-2.zip, but after countless attempts it shows the > following error: > >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() > Warning in install.packages(choose.files("", filters = Filters[c("zip", : > 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-27~1.1/library"' is not writable > package 'splancs' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > updating HTML package descriptions > Warning message: > In file.create(f.tg) : > cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-27~1.1/doc/html/packages.html', reason > 'Permission denied' >> > > I get similar outputs after trying to install different packages. > Any help will be very wellcome! > > LFLS > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.