If you look in the rw-FAQ, you will see that R itself does not use the registry. You voild (and should as you do not have permission) have deselected this option on the last installer page.
It is nothing to do with which drive, rather than you did the install with too limited privileges. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I´m trying to install R (1.09 beta version) in my computer, but my path > root to install is 'D:\...\Software' and not the usual 'C:\...'; in the > registration key step the install software mark the follow error > message: > > > > Error creating the registry key: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\R-core > > > > RegCerateKey failed; code 5. > > Access denied. > > > > After ignoring this message few times, it seems tha R was instaled > successfully. Do any of you know if this could cause a problem in the > software performance. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [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