Jeff et. al (although there are no others so far on this thread).
I finally gave up and decided to use 4.2 below from the "R for Windows FAQ”
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4.2 I don’t have permission to write to the R-3.2.2\library directory.
You can install packages anywhere and use the environment variable R_LIBS (see
How do I set environment variables?) to point to the library location(s).
Suppose your packages are installed in p:\myRlib. Then you can EITHER
set the environment variable R_LIBS to p:/myRlib before starting R
OR use a package by, e.g.
library(mypkg, lib.loc="p:/myRlib")
You can also have a personal library, which defaults to the directory
R\win-library\x.y of your home directory for versions x.y.z of R. This location
can be changed by setting the environment variable R_LIBS_USER, and can be
found from inside R by running Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER"). This will only be
used if it exists so you may need to create it: you can use
dir.create(Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER"), recursive = TRUE)
to do so. If you use install.packages and do not have permission to write to
the main or site library, it should offer to create a personal library for you
and install the packages there. This will also happen if update.packages offers
to update packages for you in a library where you do not have write permission.
There can be additional security issues under Windows Vista and later: See Does
R run under Windows Vista?. In particular, the detection that a standard user
has suitable permissions appears to be unreliable under Vista, so we recommend
that you do create a personal directory yourself.
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KW
> On Oct 26, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@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 <kw1...@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
>> <jdnew...@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.
>>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go
>> Live...
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>> Go...
>>> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#..
>> Playing
>>> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
>>> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#.
>> rocks...1k
>>>
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>>
>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>
>>> On October 25, 2015 7:50:07 AM PDT, Keith S Weintraub
>> <kw1...@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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