[R] Issues with R3.5.2

[Jeff Newmiller]

That normally only occurs if you have at some time used elevated permissions, beyond which point you fall into a downward spiral of more permissions trouble. You are apparently already in trouble, whether it was of your own making or due to a bug in the installer.

Also, never update the system R package library... always use a personal library.

On December 22, 2018 6:01:44 PM PST, Janh Anni <annijanh using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>No, during the installation, there was not an option to Run as
>Administration.  But *after *installation, I found that if I selected
>Run
>as Administrator, then I could install packages using install.packages
>as
>usual without problems.
>
>Thanks
>Janh
>
>On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:26 PM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
>wrote:
>
>> Did you by any chance use Run As Administrator to install R? If so
>then
>> you need to uninstall it and delete all files created by it (e.g.
>> Documents/R/win-lib/3.5/) and re-install using UAC as prompted.
>>
>> On December 22, 2018 5:10:27 PM PST, Janh Anni <annijanh using gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> >Dear R Experts,
>> >
>> >I use Windows 10 and just installed the new R version, R3.5.2 but
>when
>> >I
>> >tried to load a data file using read.table, I got an error message
>like
>> >this:
>> >
>> >*Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection*
>> >*In addition: Warning message:*
>> >*In file(file, "rt") :*
>> >*  cannot open file 'StreamPCB.dat': No such file or directory*
>> >
>> >Also, I couldn't install packages using install.packages as usual,
>> >unless I
>> >run R as Administrator
>> >
>> >I wonder if anyone else had the same issues and any suggestions how
>to
>> >fix?
>> >
>> >Thanks a lot
>> >Janh
>> >
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