Problem solved! Thanks to all and especially Clint Bowman and Uwe Ligges who pointed to the fly in the ointment, viz. Vista's "User Account Control," UAC.
To allow installation of R packages, you must open the Vista Control Panel and choose Windows Security Center. Then turn the UAC off. This will require a restart of the computer. After the computer restarts and you summon R, packages can be installed from CRAN in the usual way. After installation you can reassert the UAC which also requires a computer restart. Vista starts up about 5X faster than my 3 year old Windows XP machine, so the restarts are not onerous. Many thanks to you all! Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint Bowman Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:59 PM To: Charles Annis, P.E. Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages This week's eweek has an article on Vista's security and system administration--I'm guessing (a Linux user guess) that you are running afoul of Vista's User Account Control feature. Clint Bowman INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Air Dispersion Modeler INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Air Quality Program VOICE: (360) 407-6815 Department of Ecology FAX: (360) 407-7534 USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Parcels: 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4 > year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig. It was a clean install R > is the only non-MS program running. > > I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files. (I have > R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the > difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together > nicely as they should.) > > The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without incident, > but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error > message: > > > > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > trying URL > 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip > ' > Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes > opened URL > downloaded 38Kb > > Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program > Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm' > > > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
