[R] Problems with Installing R ('failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs")

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You didn't say what gave that message (and there is no 'R 3.02': did you 
mean  3.0.2?).

If this came from the installer, that is not part of R: look for info on 
'Inno Setup'.

On 18/12/2013 21:43, Barry DeCicco wrote:
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> I’m trying to install R 3.02 for windows on a Windows 7 machine (we were just upgraded from Windows XP).
> It’s a networked machine in a work environment.  I have administrator rights.
> Program files go on C; data is stored on D (it's a partitioned drive).
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> I get the message 'failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs"
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> I searched, and found some stuff on the Microsoft website, which made me believe that  I needed to unlock a folder with my user name.  There are two, one in ‘C:\Users’, which has a padlock symbol on it, and another in ‘D:\’m which doesn’t have a padlock icon.  Both had been set to read only; I removed that.Â
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> I’ve not been able to find anything on the CRAN website about this.
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> Has anybody run into this problem before?
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> Thank you very much,
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> Barry DeCicco
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