I was pointed at that my message might be considered as impolite. It was not intended so. I was just trying to formulate that there should be some improvement since the solutions offered were either not optimal for me (disabling security features) or where not working (FAQ).
I apologize for any possible inconvenience caused by my frustration spiced up possibly with my inabilities. Stefan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re:[R] update packages with R on Vista: error From: Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: R. Villegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08.06.2007 11:07 > Thanks for pointing at this. But you know, the user is writable. R is > installing Packages in /Documents/R/win-library which works fine so I > find it absolutely naturally that update should work as well. Especially > since when I install the packages it gets the latest version, library > loads this latest version but update still does want to update this > latest package with the package I already installed and fails ... > > In my opinion the update on windows is simply buggy. > > I think one should definitely not turn UAC off. ( its a good security > feature). Btw. MikTeX 2.6 is able to deal with UAC - I can update my > latex packages without any problems even though they are in the Program > File directory (and also on-the-fly installation does work) ... > > Stefan > ______________________________________________ [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.
