I am sorry I forgot to mention - I just looked in the Documents\R\win-Library directory and only found folders for previous R versions, specifically R3.0, 3.1 and 3.4. So I must have deleted the R3.5 folder as you initially advised or it was removed during the un-installation. Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by the R3.5 personal package library? Thanks again
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 4:28 PM Jeff Newmiller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On December 24, 2018 11:14:40 AM PST, Janh Anni <[email protected]> > wrote: > >Hello Jeff, Martin, > > > >I deleted 3.5.2 as suggested and tried 3.5.1 but still had the same > >problems. I still couldn't use read.table to load a data file and > >still > >had an error message when I tried to install a package. Usually after > >installing a new version of R, I would go to the R icon on the desktop, > >right click on it, click on Properties and then specify the folder that > >contains my data files in the "Start in" box, so that R automatically > >has > >access to my data files. Could that possibly be causing problems with > >these newer versions of R? > > No. > > > Also, there’s never a prompt during the > >installation to Run as Administrator, so that could not possibly be the > >cause > > Yes, you have to go out of your way to Run As Administrator (RAA). > However, regardless of how you initially encountered a problem, once you > did that there could be any number of files contaminated with permissions > issues. > > Specifically, I said to delete your 3.5 personal package library, but your > description is not specific so I suspect you may not have done that. > However, any file modified by you intentionally or not while using RAA > could be causing your problems now, so now it is up to you to find those > files somehow. > > > > > I also just tried Version 3.4.4, and had no problems whatsoever either > >with using read.table to load data files or downloading packages. So > >there > >must be some changes from version 3.5 onward that created the issues. > >Hopefully this will be looked at more closely by the team with a view > >to > >resolving the issues > > I doubt the "team" will spend much time looking at this based on your > descriptions so far. They need something reproducible, and the fact that > you already used RAA to "fix" the problem makes anything you did prior to > that almost impossible to reproduce. > > fortunes:::fortune(337) > > > > >Thanks, > > > >Janh > > > >On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 1:31 AM Jeff Newmiller > ><[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >> You could delete your 3.5 personal package library (using the File > >> Explorer with Run as Admin if necessary) and re-install your packages > >> without running as Admin. If that does not work try uninstalling R > >and > >> re-installing 3.5.1. > >> > >> On December 22, 2018 8:16:11 PM PST, Janh Anni <[email protected]> > >wrote: > >> >This issue only came up after I installed R3.5.2. Never had any > >> >problems > >> >with previous installations. So it is likely a bug in the current > >> >version. Any suggestions what to do now? > >> > > >> >On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:06 PM Jeff Newmiller > >> ><[email protected]> > >> >wrote: > >> > > >> >> That normally only occurs if you have at some time used elevated > >> >> permissions, beyond which point you fall into a downward spiral of > >> >more > >> >> permissions trouble. You are apparently already in trouble, > >whether > >> >it was > >> >> of your own making or due to a bug in the installer. > >> >> > >> >> Also, never update the system R package library... always use a > >> >personal > >> >> library. > >> >> > >> >> On December 22, 2018 6:01:44 PM PST, Janh Anni > ><[email protected]> > >> >wrote: > >> >> >Hi Jeff, > >> >> > > >> >> >No, during the installation, there was not an option to Run as > >> >> >Administration. But *after *installation, I found that if I > >> >selected > >> >> >Run > >> >> >as Administrator, then I could install packages using > >> >install.packages > >> >> >as > >> >> >usual without problems. > >> >> > > >> >> >Thanks > >> >> >Janh > >> >> > > >> >> >On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:26 PM Jeff Newmiller > >> >> ><[email protected]> > >> >> >wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> Did you by any chance use Run As Administrator to install R? If > >so > >> >> >then > >> >> >> you need to uninstall it and delete all files created by it > >(e.g. > >> >> >> Documents/R/win-lib/3.5/) and re-install using UAC as prompted. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> On December 22, 2018 5:10:27 PM PST, Janh Anni > >> ><[email protected]> > >> >> >wrote: > >> >> >> >Dear R Experts, > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >I use Windows 10 and just installed the new R version, R3.5.2 > >but > >> >> >when > >> >> >> >I > >> >> >> >tried to load a data file using read.table, I got an error > >> >message > >> >> >like > >> >> >> >this: > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >*Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection* > >> >> >> >*In addition: Warning message:* > >> >> >> >*In file(file, "rt") :* > >> >> >> >* cannot open file 'StreamPCB.dat': No such file or > >directory* > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >Also, I couldn't install packages using install.packages as > >> >usual, > >> >> >> >unless I > >> >> >> >run R as Administrator > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >I wonder if anyone else had the same issues and any > >suggestions > >> >how > >> >> >to > >> >> >> >fix? > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >Thanks a lot > >> >> >> >Janh > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >______________________________________________ > >> >> >> >[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, > >see > >> >> >> >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. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> -- > >> >> >> Sent from my phone. 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