[R] RWinEdt and Windows Vista

[Uwe Ligges]

Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> Dimitri:
> 
> Several of us early Vista users have encountered difficulties that
> ultimately were related to Vista's treating only the Administrator as having
> permission to make some changes.  Even if you are the only user, you still
> do not have administrative privileges by default.  (I think this is a good
> thing since it diminishes accidental or malicious changes). 
> 
> With R the problem surfaces when trying to install packages.  The problem is
> easily mitigated by running R as the administrator and installing the
> packages or updates.  (Subsequent R sessions can be run by double clicking
> on the icon, as usual.)  To do that, right-click on the program's icon and
> choose "Run as administrator."  Perhaps this will solve your RWinEdt
> problems as well.

Indeed, I think you will have to install the package and load the 
package the first time with administrator privileges.
Please report whether it works or not, since I do not have a Vista 
machine available to try it out myself. Thanks.

Uwe Ligges
(as the package maintainer of RWinEdt)




> Best wishes!
> 
> Charles Annis, P.E.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Dimitri Szerman
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:51 AM
> To: R-Help
> Subject: [R] RWinEdt and Windows Vista
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a new computer with Windows Vista and I am trying to use
> RWinEdt, which I have always used. I am using R version 2.5.
> 
> The installation of the RWinEdt library is funny. First, it didn't
> install at all. Then, I uninstalled/reinstalled both R and WinEdt,
> downloaded the package again from the CRAN repositary, got some error
> messages, but RWinEdt initialized. I closed R and WinEdt, launched R
> again, type "library(RWinEdt)", and got several dialogue boxes
> (again), asking if I wanted to creat shortcuts, etc. Then, RWinEdt
> didn't work anymore.
> 
> I'm sorry for the messy email, but I've done so many
> installations/uninstallations/re installations, that I am alos
> confused.
> 
> I guess the ultimate questions is: are there any known issued between
> R, RWinEdt and Windows Vista?
> 
> I appreciate any help.
> Thanks,
> Dimitri
> 
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