[R] help_R2.5 updating

[Gabor Grothendieck]

By the way, just to be clear when I wrote %userprofile% I meant that
you should replace that with the value of %userprofile%

set u

at the Windows console will show it.

On 10/6/07, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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