Thank you Dan! I dunno if I would have ever found that.
Thanks! Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:49 AM To: Duncan Murdoch; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] installing packages and windows vista Opening R by right clicking and choosing "run as administrator' worked. Was able to run install packages without a problem. I have not tested the other methods suggested. thank you. Dan O'Shea -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2/6/2007 10:33 AM, Daniel O'Shea wrote: > > I installed R (R-2.4.1-win32.exe) on a new computer with Windows Vista > > and a 64 bit operating system (hp dv9000 with intel core t7200). The > > base R runs fine, but I can not get any of the packages to load. From > > within R I choose install packages choose a site then a package. I > > tried installing 2 packages and get similar errors (see below), I just > > copied and pasted lines from R. > > > > Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thank you. > > I believe that on Vista you need to do like other OS's, and run package > installs at a higher security level than the default. I don't have > Vista so I've never done this, but I've been told you do it by right > clicking on the R icon and choosing "Run as administrator". > > I'd be interested in hearing if this is true of all package installs, or > only installs to C:/Program files. Can you have a local library for > your user, with only user permissions needed to modify packages there? > You'd test this by creating a library directory in your own file space, > then using .libPaths() to add it to the library location list. By > default new installs would go there. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > Dan O'Shea > > > >> utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > also installing the dependencies 'scatterplot3d', 'rgl', 'ellipse' > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/scatterplot3d_0.3-24.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 540328 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 527Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/rgl_0.70.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 838137 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 818Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/ellipse_0.3-4.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 91877 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 89Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/vegan_1.8-5.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 1176434 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 1148Kb > > Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files > > (x86)/R/R-2.4.1/library/file60bf5753/scatterplot3d/chtml/scatterplot3d.chm' > > > > > >> utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > > also installing the dependencies 'akima', 'gam', 'RColorBrewer', 'sm', > > 'deldir', 'sp', 'maps', 'spatstat', 'PBSmapping', 'gpclib', 'RArcInfo', > > 'tkrplot', 'maptools', 'mapproj', 'rgl', 'qcc', 'sgeostat', 'acepack', > > 'TeachingDemos', 'chron', 'Hmisc' > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/akima_0.5-1.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 128809 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 125Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/gam_0.98.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 238008 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 232Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 38Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sm_2.1-0.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 400621 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 391Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/deldir_0.0-5.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 108656 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 106Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-4.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 747542 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 730Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/maps_2.0-33.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 2219136 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 2167Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/spatstat_1.11-0.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 4558460 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 4451Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/PBSmapping_2.09.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 6725596 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 6567Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/gpclib_1.3-3.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 95120 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 92Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RArcInfo_0.4-7.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 374375 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 365Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/tkrplot_0.0-16.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 24119 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 23Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/maptools_0.6-6.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 679963 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 664Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/mapproj_1.1-7.1.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 64188 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 62Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/rgl_0.70.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 838137 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 818Kb > > trying URL 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/qcc_1.2.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 314782 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 307Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sgeostat_1.0-20.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 140584 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 137Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/acepack_1.3-2.2.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 55675 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 54Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/TeachingDemos_1.4.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 383599 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 374Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/chron_2.3-9.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 112830 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 110Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Hmisc_3.1-2.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 2079032 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 2030Kb > > trying URL > > 'http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Design_2.0-12.zip' > > Content type 'application/zip' length 1410543 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 1377Kb > > Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files > > (x86)/R/R-2.4.1/library/fileceda26/akima/chtml/akima.chm' > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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 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