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 that way, though it's not necessary anymore > (to have a truly smooth R). You really don't need it switched on if you > have decent anti-virus stuff &c. > > Regards, > Mark Difford. > Yes, I found the UAC trick, and the fact that most people turn it off suggests to me that the security policy was not executed very well. I agree with Uwe that my posting was a bit off topic, having more to do with Windows Vista hacks than with R, but I thought this mailing list is read by technical/developer types who might appreciate my comments.
I don't think you will find any info about WinZip/ZipGenius compatibility issues in the Windows Vista docs, and the main purpose of my posting was to share what I learned with this mailing list. But by all means for R packaging purposes everyone should use the approved/tested zip that is part of Brian Ripley's Rtools collection. I'll have to remember to stay on topic in the future. Dominick ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
