[R] Erro updating HTML package descriptions in packages.html

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Sun Jul 20 19:12:10 CEST 2008



José Augusto Jr. wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have just installed the new version of R 2.7.1 and when i first
> instaled some packages it asked me to create a personal directory.
> 
> It installed the packages, but not the html help page (packages.html)
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         C:\Users\jamaj\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4MTuXN\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message:
> In file.create(f.tg) :
>   cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-27~1.1/doc/html/packages.html',
> reason 'Permission denied'
> 
> 
> How can i fix the packages.html file to reflect the packages' instalation?


If you need to, run R with privileges that permit write access to that 
file...

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks in advance.
> 
> José Augusto M. de Andrade Jr. (jamaj)
> Quant. Finance Researcher
> FEA-RP - University of São Paulo
> 
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