Mark Difford wrote:
Hi Dominick,
No offence intended, but I have been running R (presently 2.5.1.patched) on
a Vista (Home Basic) machine without a hitch since March 2007. Initially I
had to turn off User Account Control to install new packages, but that was
a known issue. I still run it
If you find you need to turn UAC off try, instead, installing R into
%userprofile%\Documents\R\R-2.6.0
(assuming R 2.6.0). I run with UAC *on* although actually I was able
to run R with UAC on even with R in c:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0.
It was only R CMD CHECK/INSTALL that was a problem and
Hi Dominick,
No offence intended, but I have been running R (presently 2.5.1.patched) on
a Vista (Home Basic) machine without a hitch since March 2007. Initially I
had to turn off User Account Control to install new packages, but that was
a known issue. I still run it that way, though it's not
Dominick Samperi wrote:
This is a repost of a simple question about Windows Vista and R (with
answer), along with a heads-up on other Windows Vista issues that people may
not be aware of and that may impact R development.
1. The standard package install process fails because the user does
Uwe Ligges wrote:
There is not a single R-Vista issue here (and no R issue at all). All
are problems of the user who has not read Windows Vista documentation.
Uwe Ligges
Oh, and this probably explains why my previous two postings mysteriously
disappeared.
I took the time to post this message
This is a repost of a simple question about Windows Vista and R (with
answer), along with a heads-up on other Windows Vista issues that people may
not be aware of and that may impact R development.
1. The standard package install process fails because the user does not
have permission to write to
