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

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On October 26, 2015 6:49:42 AM PDT, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>I have not used W10, but for quite awhile the *administrator" account
>(not the hidden one named "Administrator") has merely had the right to
>"Run As Administrator"... but doing so explicitly is not recommended
>unless you definitely know what you are doing (in which case you should
>not be asking for help here). As long as you let the UAC (User Account
>Control) prompt you at the necessary moments you should not have
>permissions trouble. If you have followed this advice already then
>there might be a bug in the installer, but I would have thought I would
>have seen more complaints by now if it was a bug.
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>On October 26, 2015 6:16:47 AM PDT, Keith S Weintraub
><kw1958 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>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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