[R] Problems with Rterm 2.13.0 - but not RGui

[Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards]

Yes, the message is pretty clear, but it has nothing to do with running as admin.
I have just tried to start a command line with admin privileges and the error still occurs.
Regarding Rgui, I started it by opening the shortcut.

Now I've tracked down the problem a bit, and the problem appears to be connected to which folder R is called from. 
And by sheer luck I've resolved the problem: 
In all previous versions of Windows, on the Danish editions, the "C:\Program Files" directory was called "C:\Programmer". This appears to be the case in Windows 7, but "C:\Programmer" is a symbolic link (hard/soft?) to "C:\Program Files". And apparently, I've been calling R from "C:\Programmer" instead of "C:\Program Files" which gave the problem. 
When/how/why I changed the PATH variable to the symbolic link is unclear, but a quick check reveals that the problem did not exist in R 2.12.1:
C:\Programmer\R\R-2.12.1\bin\i386\Rterm  # No problem
C:\Programmer\R\R-2.13.0\bin\i386\Rterm  # Problem

I will submit a bug report on this.

Kind regards,
Stefan McKinnon Edwards


-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Jonathan Daily [mailto:biomathjdaily at gmail.com] 
Sendt: 2. maj 2011 16:59
Til: Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Emne: Re: [R] Problems with Rterm 2.13.0 - but not RGui

The message is pretty clear. Access denied means you don't have
permission to access the path. This also explains why the packages
fail to load - you don't have access to R's package library. It most
likely works on RGui because you are clicking it/running it as admin
(you did not specify how you ran RGui).

2011/5/2 Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards <Stefan.Hoj-Edwards at agrsci.dk>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed R 2.13.0 and I am experiencing problems with the terminal, but not the with the GUI interface.
> I am Windows 7.
>
> When running "R" or "Rterm" from a commandline I receive the following:
>
> Warning message:
> In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
>  path[3]="C:/Programmer/R/R-2.13.0/library": Adgang nægtet
>
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
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>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> Warning message:
> package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: package 'datasets' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 2: package 'utils' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 3: package 'grDevices' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 4: package 'graphics' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 5: package 'stats' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 6: package 'methods' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>
>
> Notice: "C:/Programmer/" is the Danish equivalent of "C:/Program Files".
> The first error "Adgang nægtet" is directly translated to "Access denied".
>
> Any suggestions as how to fix this?
>
> Kind regards,
> Stefan McKinnon Edwards
>
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