On Apr 28, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> a) You seem to be under the impression that running as Administrator fixes > problems... in my experience, it simply multiplies them. [1] > On a windows machine, I don't have any impressions either way. I find the entire OS to be counter-intuitive and annoying, and I tend to take the path of least resistance when it comes to playing with it. the point I was trying to make was that it isn't an "insufficient privileges" problem. I understand your point (and the point of the link you sent), and I'll see how easy I find it to change the install folders to a user folder. (right now, I do everything except installs in Rstudio, so its pretty easy to open a instance of Rgui just for the install.packages > b) Your personal library is in an unusual place... it is usually an R > directory under your Documents folder... > > C:\Users\melissa\R\win-library\3.0 > > should normally be > > C:\Users\melissa\Documents\R\win-library\3.0 > > on a Win7 system. This mis-location may be related to your problems. This sounds like a potential culprit (along with c). I've been doing standard R installs (nothing fancy, I promise), so I'm not sure why this would be the case. Is there any easy way to correct this? Thanks for your response! Melissa > > c) Your errors seem to be suggesting that you have a Windows XP-style > personal library path in your install somewhere: > > c:/Docume~1/melissa/R/win-library/3.0 > > That is definitely not kosher on a Win7 system. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg193966.html > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Melissa Key wrote: > >> Hi- >> >> >> >> I just upgraded R to 3.0.0 from 2.15.1 (which worked fine). When I started >> trying to install updated versions of the libraries, I saw the following >> error: >> >> >> >>> install.packages("lme4") >> >> Installing package into 'c:/Docume~1/melissa/R/win-library/3.0' >> >> (as 'lib' is unspecified) >> >> Warning in install.packages : >> >> path[1]="c:/Docume~1/melissa/R/win-library/3.0": Access is denied >> >> trying URL >> 'http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/lme4_0.999999-2.zip' >> >> Content type 'application/zip' length 1408286 bytes (1.3 Mb) >> >> opened URL >> >> downloaded 1.3 Mb >> >> >> >> Error in install.packages : path[1]="c:\Docume~1\melissa\R\win-library\3.0": >> Access is denied >> >> >> >> At that point, I noticed that a similar error was occurring when R loads: >> >> Warning message: >> In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) : >> path[1]="c:/Docume~1/melissa/R/win-library/3.0": Access is denied >> >> >> >> The relevant directory does exist, although it keeps getting set to >> "read-only". I can't imagine that being a big issue if I'm running R as an >> administrator though >> >> C:\Users\melissa\R\win-library\3.0 >> >> >> >> Also, I can successfully install packages into other directories (e.g. when >> running as an administrator, this works fine): >> >>> install.packages("lme4", lib="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.0/library") >> trying URL >> 'http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/lme4_0.999999-2.zip' >> Content type 'application/zip' length 1408286 bytes (1.3 Mb) >> opened URL >> downloaded 1.3 Mb >> >> package 'lme4' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> >> The downloaded binary packages are in >> C:\Users\melissa\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpEXtf89\downloaded_packages >> >> >> >> This will allow me to work with most R packages, but not Bioconductor, due >> path to the references in the biocLite source file. >> >> >> >> I haven't seen any other messages regarding similar issues, so I'm not sure >> what is going on. I've tried reinstalling R, (although I didn't try a fresh >> download). >> >> >> >> Other relevant details: >> >> This is a personal computer running windows 7. >> >> >> >> >> >> Any thoughts or ideas of how to get this to work? >> >> >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> >> Melissa Key >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.