[R] Having trouble updating and installing R 3.2.1 and 3.2.2

[Keith S Weintraub]

I uninstalled all versions of R on my computer and killed all R directories (I think).

I am wondering that since I “upgraded” to Windows 10 is it possible that I should create a user separate from the administrator account? My previous version of Windows was 7 Home I think. 

Here is a longer version of the error messages that I get.

> install.packages("sm")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Administrator/My Documents/R/win-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.2
Warning messages:
1: In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
  path[1]="C:/Users/Administrator/My Documents/R/win-library/3.2": Access is denied
2: package ‘sm’ is not available (for R version 3.2.2) 


Thanks for your help,
KW


> On Oct 25, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us> wrote:
> 
> I would guess that you ran R as administrator at some point and now you have a permissions problem on your user library. I can't say I know how to fix it, though using administrator mode to fix the permissions is probably hard while using administrator mode to delete the R directory and reinstalling your packages might be easier.
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> On October 25, 2015 7:50:07 AM PDT, Keith S Weintraub <kw1958 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I get the following error:
>> 
>> Warning message:
>> In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
>> path[1]="C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents/R/win-library/3.2": Access
>> is denied
>> 
>> This may be the first time that I have tried to upgrade R since I
>> upgraded my Windows installation (on Parallels on my Mac no less) to
>> Windows 10.
>> 
>> Needless to say when I try to install packages outside of core CRAN I
>> have issues.
>> 
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks much,
>> KW
>> 
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