[R] help_R2.5 updating

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I found that installing R into %userprofile%\Documents\R and placing the
source packages I was developing there too solved my
permissions problems.  R automatically created a
  %userprofile%\Documents\R\win-library\2.6
folder for my library and put packages that I was installing from CRAN
in it.  In R I can now do this:
   setwd("~/R")
to get to that directory

On 10/6/07, Thanjavur Bragadeesh <bragadeesh02 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I run windows vista ultimate in my laptop and run R 2.5
>
> I am trying to update the packages but it comes up with an error message
>
> ""Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :          'lib' is not writable
> Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :         unable to install packages"
>
> I am the adminsitrator on this computer and logged in as administrator.
>
> can anyone advise. I treid to switch off most security - windows firewall is off and so is macfee.
>
>
> many thanks for your advise
>
> bragadeesh
>
>
>
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