Re: [R] installing R packages in a networked lab?

2008-08-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Michael, It is very likely that a network install will not work. A security patch ca 2 years ago to Windows XP (etc) disallowed loading .chm files from a network, and you can stop loading .dll files too (and Vista does now by default AFAIR). What we do is to install R locally (via the .msi

[R] installing R packages in a networked lab?

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Friendly
Our support staff will be installing R 2.7.1 on a Windows Novell network where R will reside on the server rather than on the local lab machines or at best will be in an image that is copied to the local machines. I want to suggest a set of additional packages that should be installed as part of