[R] Windows 7 (Swedish): 'Rcmd INSTALL' fails (SOLVED)

[Uwe Ligges]

On 21.07.2013 10:50, Göran Broström wrote:
> Uwe, thanks!
>
> The switch from "Program" to "Program Files" made it (stupid Windows!).
>
> I tried the "--library=." flag because I got the error message
>
> path[2]="C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/library": Access denied
>
> without it, and naively thought that I had a permission problem.
> This was strange, because I am the administrator of my Windows machines.
>
> BTW, why can't I, as an administrator, install packages in
>
> "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" ?


Because you started R with standard privileges? Right click on R and 
then tell Windows to start R as an administrator. That should fix your 
problems.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> This is of course a very minor problem, since I never do anything useful
> on Windows machines.
>
> Best,
>
> Göran Broström
>
> Uwe Ligges skrev 2013-07-21 00:51:
>>
>>
>> On 21.07.2013 00:26, Göran Broström wrote:
>>> I am trying to build a Windows zip file of a private package by
>>>
>>> C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/bin/x64/Rcmd INSTALL --build --library=.
>>> epigen_0.1.tar.gz
>>
>> Why --library=. ?
>> Do you have appropriate poermissions to do that? In this case, you need
>> to start everything with admin priviliges explicitly unless your Windows
>> is configured differently.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> but I get errors like
>>>
>>> 1: package 'datasets' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>>>
>>> and, finally,
>>>
>>> Error in normalsizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
>>> path[1]="C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/library/tools": Atkomst nekad
>>> (Access denied)
>>>
>>> This is on a Swedish version of Windows 7. I noticed that the R
>>> installer called the installation directory "Program Files" instead of
>>> "Program" (despite my effort to change it), so I tried the same thing
>>
>> But there is "Program Files", "Program" is just something like a link
>> shown by the Windows Explorer that actually points to "Program Files".
>>
>>
>>
>>> with an English version of Windows 7 (on another machine), and there
>>> everything went as expected.
>>>
>>> I installed R on both machines today so the setups should be identical,
>>> except for the languages. What can be wrong? Can it be a language/path
>>> thing?
>>
>> Probably not the language but different admin settings.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insight!
>>>
>>> Göran Broström
>>>
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