[Rd] Updating library
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 02:28:22 CET 2008
On Vista my R installation is in
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0
and there is a library here:
%userprofile%\Documents\R\win-library\2.6
If I use the GUI Packages menu to update my library it
works ok _except_ for any packages such as lattice and
the VR bundle that come with R. For those I get this (this
is what I got when I tried to update lattice but I get a similar
message for the VR bundle as well):
> 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~1/R/R-26~1.0/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l,
contriburl = contriburl, :
unable to install packages
I am using R-2.6.1 (even though the directory says 2.6.0) since I
tend to write over the prior directory if its just an upgrade involving
the last digit of the R version.
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.6.1 Patched (2007-12-06 r43610)"
How should I go about updating lattice and the VR bundle?
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