[R] Problems updating packages

[Tolga Uzuner]

OK thanks. The odd thing is, this just started happening. And I am an Admin on my machine.

Or I think I am...hmm, let me check, maybe I did something to my own privileges recently by mistake.

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> On 8 Dec 2013, at 01:07 pm, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 08.12.2013 16:37, Tolga Uzuner wrote:
>> Dear R Users
>> Ive just uninstalled R and reinstalled from scratch. I then hit Update
>> Packages and get the following message:
>> 
>> > update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE)
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Warning: package 'foreign' in library 'C:/Program
>> Files/R/R-3.0.2/library' will not be updated
>> Warning: package 'lattice' in library 'C:/Program
>> Files/R/R-3.0.2/library' will not be updated
>> Warning: package 'Matrix' in library 'C:/Program
>> Files/R/R-3.0.2/library' will not be updated
>> Warning: package 'mgcv' in library 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/library'
>> will not be updated
>> Warning: package 'nlme' in library 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/library'
>> will not be updated
>> >
>> 
>> Why would this be the case ?
> 
> You do not have permissions to update packages in that library.
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
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