Thanks Charles, it seems to be working fine now, But I had to uninstall/reinstall both R and WinEdt.
2007/4/28, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > > Dimitri: > > > > Several of us early Vista users have encountered difficulties that > > ultimately were related to Vista's treating only the Administrator as having > > permission to make some changes. Even if you are the only user, you still > > do not have administrative privileges by default. (I think this is a good > > thing since it diminishes accidental or malicious changes). > > > > With R the problem surfaces when trying to install packages. The problem is > > easily mitigated by running R as the administrator and installing the > > packages or updates. (Subsequent R sessions can be run by double clicking > > on the icon, as usual.) To do that, right-click on the program's icon and > > choose "Run as administrator." Perhaps this will solve your RWinEdt > > problems as well. > > Indeed, I think you will have to install the package and load the > package the first time with administrator privileges. > Please report whether it works or not, since I do not have a Vista > machine available to try it out myself. Thanks. > > Uwe Ligges > (as the package maintainer of RWinEdt) > > > > > > Best wishes! > > > > 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 Dimitri Szerman > > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:51 AM > > To: R-Help > > Subject: [R] RWinEdt and Windows Vista > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a new computer with Windows Vista and I am trying to use > > RWinEdt, which I have always used. I am using R version 2.5. > > > > The installation of the RWinEdt library is funny. First, it didn't > > install at all. Then, I uninstalled/reinstalled both R and WinEdt, > > downloaded the package again from the CRAN repositary, got some error > > messages, but RWinEdt initialized. I closed R and WinEdt, launched R > > again, type "library(RWinEdt)", and got several dialogue boxes > > (again), asking if I wanted to creat shortcuts, etc. Then, RWinEdt > > didn't work anymore. > > > > I'm sorry for the messy email, but I've done so many > > installations/uninstallations/re installations, that I am alos > > confused. > > > > I guess the ultimate questions is: are there any known issued between > > R, RWinEdt and Windows Vista? > > > > I appreciate any help. > > Thanks, > > Dimitri > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 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 commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
