[R] Problems updating packages

[Uwe Ligges]

On 08.12.2013 19:12, Tolga Uzuner wrote:
> 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.


Right click R and "start as Administrator"?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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