"Fred J." wrote: > > yes, I loged in as admin. and that fixed the problem, > but when I type ?fdim I don't get the help docs, why? > even though I have all the htmls under > C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\library\fdim\html > > thanks
Either you forgot to load the package library(fdim) or your installation is still broken (please check whether you have got read permissions) ... BTW: Without having changed the defaults, you will need the files in ...\fdim\help, those in ...\fdim\html will be displayed after setting options(htmlhelp=TRUE). Uwe Ligges > --- Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 13:30:25 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > > >Error in int.unzip(zipname, NULL, dest) : > > destination > > >does not exist > > > > > > > R tries to build a temporary directory to hold the > > files, and it > > sounds as though it's failing when it does that. > > You can see the sort > > of name it is trying to use with this command: > > > > > tempfile(,.libPaths()[1]) > > [1] "F:/R/cvs/r-devel/library\\file27447" > > > > If you don't have permission to create a directory > > with that name, > > then the command will fail. I'd guess that's your > > problem. > > > > The way around this is to install the library in a > > local path, instead > > of one where you don't have write access. You can > > do this within a > > session by calling > > > > .libPaths('c:/newpath') > > > > and on the command line that invoked R by adding the > > argument > > "R_LIBS=c:/newpath". > > > > Notice the use of the forward slash, not a > > backslash, in the path > > name. > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html