[R] installing packages and windows vista

Tue Feb 6 17:08:00 CET 2007

On 2/6/2007 10:33 AM, Daniel O'Shea wrote:
> I installed  R  (R-2.4.1-win32.exe) on a new computer with Windows Vista
> and a 64 bit operating system (hp dv9000 with intel core t7200).  The
> base R runs fine, but I can not get any of the packages to load.  From
> within R I choose install packages choose a site then a package.  I
> tried installing 2 packages and get similar errors (see below), I just
> copied and pasted lines from R.
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?  Thank you.

I believe that on Vista you need to do like other OS's, and run package 
installs at a higher security level than the default.  I don't have 
Vista so I've never done this, but I've been told you do it by right 
clicking on the R icon and choosing "Run as administrator".

I'd be interested in hearing if this is true of all package installs, or 
only installs to C:/Program files.  Can you have a local library for 
your user, with only user permissions needed to modify packages there?
You'd test this by creating a library directory in your own file space, 
then using .libPaths() to add it to the library location list.  By 
default new installs would go there.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Dan O'Shea
> 
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> also installing the dependencies 'scatterplot3d', 'rgl', 'ellipse'
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/scatterplot3d_0.3-24.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 540328 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 527Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/rgl_0.70.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 838137 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 818Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/ellipse_0.3-4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 91877 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 89Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/vegan_1.8-5.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1176434 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 1148Kb
> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files
> (x86)/R/R-2.4.1/library/file60bf5753/scatterplot3d/chtml/scatterplot3d.chm'
> 
> 
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> also installing the dependencies 'akima', 'gam', 'RColorBrewer', 'sm',
> 'deldir', 'sp', 'maps', 'spatstat', 'PBSmapping', 'gpclib', 'RArcInfo',
> 'tkrplot', 'maptools', 'mapproj', 'rgl', 'qcc', 'sgeostat', 'acepack',
> 'TeachingDemos', 'chron', 'Hmisc'
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/akima_0.5-1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 128809 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 125Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/gam_0.98.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 238008 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 232Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 38Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sm_2.1-0.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 400621 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 391Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/deldir_0.0-5.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 108656 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 106Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 747542 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 730Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/maps_2.0-33.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 2219136 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 2167Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/spatstat_1.11-0.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 4558460 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 4451Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/PBSmapping_2.09.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 6725596 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 6567Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/gpclib_1.3-3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 95120 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 92Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RArcInfo_0.4-7.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 374375 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 365Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/tkrplot_0.0-16.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 24119 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 23Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/maptools_0.6-6.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 679963 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 664Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/mapproj_1.1-7.1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 64188 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 62Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/rgl_0.70.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 838137 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 818Kb
> trying URL 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/qcc_1.2.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 314782 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 307Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sgeostat_1.0-20.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 140584 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 137Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/acepack_1.3-2.2.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 55675 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 54Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/TeachingDemos_1.4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 383599 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 374Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/chron_2.3-9.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 112830 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 110Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Hmisc_3.1-2.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 2079032 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 2030Kb
> trying URL
> 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Design_2.0-12.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1410543 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 1377Kb
> Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files
> (x86)/R/R-2.4.1/library/fileceda26/akima/chtml/akima.chm'
> 
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