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

[Clint Bowman]

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.

Clint Bowman			INTERNET:	clint at ecy.wa.gov
Air Dispersion Modeler		INTERNET:	clint at math.utah.edu
Air Quality Program		VOICE:		(360) 407-6815
Department of Ecology		FAX:		(360) 407-7534

	USPS:  		PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600
	Parcels:	300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274

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
>  
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
>