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

[Göran Broström]

On 07/21/2013 12:27 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Thanks again; didn't know that either! Always fun to learn new things.

Best,

Göran Broström


> 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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