[Rd] [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages

[Uwe Ligges]

[moved to R-devel]

Thanks for the report.
It would be interesting to know if the package installation fails 
because of chm files or because you are trying to install stuff into a 
directory with insufficient permissions even for other files.
If we are supposed packages in a different way for Vista, it would be 
nice to be able (i.e. knowing what to do) to apply relevant changes 
before the next major release (R-2.5.0?).

Best,
Uwe


Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> Problem solved!
> 
> Thanks to all and especially Clint Bowman and Uwe Ligges who pointed to the
> fly in the ointment, viz. Vista's "User Account Control," UAC.  
> 
> To allow installation of R packages, you must open the Vista Control Panel
> and choose Windows Security Center.  Then turn the UAC off.  This will
> require a restart of the computer.  After the computer restarts and you
> summon R, packages can be installed from CRAN in the usual way.  After
> installation you can reassert the UAC which also requires a computer
> restart.  Vista starts up about 5X faster than my 3 year old Windows XP
> machine, so the restarts are not onerous.
> 
> Many thanks to you all!
> 
> Charles Annis, P.E.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Clint Bowman
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:59 PM
> To: Charles Annis, P.E.
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages
> 
> This week's eweek has an article on Vista's security and system
> administration--I'm guessing (a Linux user guess) that you are running
> afoul of Vista's User Account Control feature.
> 
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> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> 
>> I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4
>> year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig.  It was a clean install –
> R
>> is the only non-MS program running.
>>
>> I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files.  (I have
>> R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the
>> difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together
>> nicely as they should.)
>>
>> The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without
> incident,
>> but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error
>> message:
>>
>>
>>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>> trying URL
>>
> 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip
>> '
>> Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes
>> opened URL
>> downloaded 38Kb
>>
>> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program
>> Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm'
>> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>
>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>> phone: 561-352-9699
>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>>  
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