On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Filipe Santos wrote: > I just did a standard installation of R in my computer. > > What I was trying here is to call attention that Windows Vista doesn't allow > normal users to write on the R default installation directory. Instead, the > information about configuration files ( and in this case .RDataTmp ) > shouldn't they be stored in Username/AppData/Local ?
It does if the user installs R. Note the advice in the rw-FAQ to set up a shortcut with an appropriate working directory, which it seems you did not do. There is nothing new about Vista here: all NT-based versions of Windows did the same thing. > > Filipe Santos > > On Friday 12 October 2007 19:03:18 you wrote: >> Do you have write permissions in the current working directory? I guess >> not. >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> Filipe Santos wrote: >>> Dear all... >>> >>> I'm using R 2.6.0 in windows Vista. And I got the following error: >>>> quit() >>> >>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y >>> Error in gzfile(file,"wb"): unable to open connection >>> In addiction: Warning message: >>> In gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open compressed file '.RDataTmp' >>> >>> This happens in both in RGui and Rterm >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Filipe Santos >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
