[R] Install Packages in Windows Vista

[Gabor Grothendieck]

You do that by right clicking the R icon on the Windows Desktop
and then choosing Run As Administrator .

Alternately grab el.js and Rgui.bat from the batchfiles distribution --
home page is at:

   http://batchfiles.googlecode.com

and place them anywhere in your path and then you can just do this
from the command line to start up R as an elevated process
(you will be asked for confirmation):

   el Rgui

(Omitting el starts it up normally.)

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Charles Annis, P.E.
<Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com> wrote:
> Run R as the Administrator.  Install the packages.  Then run as an ordinary
> user.
>
>
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> Charles Annis, P.E.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of nicholasw22
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:11 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Install Packages in Windows Vista
>
>
> I can't seem to install packages to R. Each time I get the following
> output...for example
>
> bundle 'VR' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        C:\Users\DarkBlue\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpQrD7Le\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message:
> In file.create(f.tg) :
>  cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R/doc/html/packages.html', reason
> 'Permission denied'
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