Re: [R] help_R2.5 updating

2007-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is no 'R 2.5'! Advice as requested: 1) Study the R posting guide and give the details it asks you for, accurately. 2) Read the rw-FAQ. Very relevant for Windows Vista users. 3) Don't use obsolete versions of R. R 2.6.0 is current, and we do make R better at each release. If you ha

Re: [R] help_R2.5 updating

2007-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
By the way, just to be clear when I wrote %userprofile% I meant that you should replace that with the value of %userprofile% set u at the Windows console will show it. On 10/6/07, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that installing R into %userprofile%\Documents\R and placing

Re: [R] help_R2.5 updating

2007-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I found that installing R into %userprofile%\Documents\R and placing the source packages I was developing there too solved my permissions problems. R automatically created a %userprofile%\Documents\R\win-library\2.6 folder for my library and put packages that I was installing from CRAN in it. I

[R] help_R2.5 updating

2007-10-06 Thread Thanjavur Bragadeesh
Hi, I run windows vista ultimate in my laptop and run R 2.5 I am trying to update the packages but it comes up with an error message ""Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[