I run XP, not Vista, but have always installed R in c:\Program Files\R\R... and have never had a problem with the space in Program Files so I doubt that that would be the problem.
On 20 Oct 2006 22:31:09 +0200, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Charles Annis, P.E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4 > > year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig. It was a clean install R > > is the only non-MS program running. > > > > I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files. (I have > > R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the > > difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together > > nicely as they should.) > > > > The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without incident, > > but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error > > message: > > > > > > > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip > > ' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 38Kb > > > > Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program > > Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm' > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Not claiming any expertise on Windows or (in particular) Vista, but > what happens if you install R to a directory without a space in its > name? > > Or perhaps there's a permission issue. Try installing to a > subdirectory of your home directory. > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
