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

[Charles Annis, P.E.]

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.

Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
phone: 561-352-9699
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http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
 

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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:59 PM
To: Charles Annis, P.E.
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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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