[R] Need online version of R help pages
Paul
Paul.Domaskis at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 19:05:54 CEST 2015
Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson <at> ucsf.edu> writes:
> I don't want to rub it in more, but whatever dark forces are upon
> you, they'd have a hard time preventing you from installing R to
> your user account, which requires minimal privileges(*).
>
> Just wanted to make sure you're aware of your options
>
> /Henrik
>
> (*) The R Windows installer detects and adjusts for this
> automatically. The only things I can think of that prevents this
> approach is that the computer is completely disconnected from the
> world, users have extremely limited disk space, the user account is
> wiped at every login, ... what else? Also, AFAIK, the only thing
> you miss out on is that R won't be added to the Windows Registry
> meaning .RData files are not associated with R, but that's a very
> low price to pay considered it's a better option than Cygwin.
It's simply not allowed. However, as I said, this is being worked
out.
It is *very* useful to know that when things work out, it *can* be
installed as non-administrator. That would be infinitely less
headache. Thanks.
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