[R] RWinEdt and Windows Vista

[Dimitri Szerman]

Thanks Charles, it seems to be working fine now, But I had to
uninstall/reinstall both R and WinEdt.

2007/4/28, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>:
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
> > phone: 561-352-9699
> > eFax:  614-455-3265
> > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
> >
> > -----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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