R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages
I wish I were a more knowledgeable computer weenie, but I'm just an amateur beta-testing the Vista OS. Since I could install R easily from CRAN but the packages balked with the default security settings but installed without incident when I turned the User Account Control off, I would guess that it's the OS, not R. Does the base installation use chm files? Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:03 AM To: Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com Cc: 'Clint Bowman'; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages [moved to R-devel] Thanks for the report. It would be interesting to know if the package installation fails because of chm files or because you are trying to install stuff into a directory with insufficient permissions even for other files. If we are supposed packages in a different way for Vista, it would be nice to be able (i.e. knowing what to do) to apply relevant changes before the next major release (R-2.5.0?). Best, Uwe
Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
Problem solved! Thanks to all and especially Clint Bowman and Uwe Ligges who pointed to
the
fly in the ointment, viz. Vista's "User Account Control," UAC. To allow installation of R packages, you must open the Vista Control Panel and choose Windows Security Center. Then turn the UAC off. This will require a restart of the computer. After the computer restarts and you summon R, packages can be installed from CRAN in the usual way. After installation you can reassert the UAC which also requires a computer restart. Vista starts up about 5X faster than my 3 year old Windows XP machine, so the restarts are not onerous. Many thanks to you all! Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Clint Bowman Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:59 PM To: Charles Annis, P.E. Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R-2.4.0 and MS Vista OS - installing packages This week's eweek has an article on Vista's security and system administration--I'm guessing (a Linux user guess) that you are running afoul of Vista's User Account Control feature. Clint Bowman INTERNET: clint at ecy.wa.gov Air Dispersion Modeler INTERNET: clint at math.utah.edu Air Quality Program VOICE: (360) 407-6815 Department of Ecology FAX: (360) 407-7534 USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Parcels: 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
I have installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 1, and R-2.4.0, on a 4 year old DELL box with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 gig. It was a clean install -
R
is the only non-MS program running. I cannot install packages from CRAN, nor from local zipped files. (I
have
R-2.4.0 installed on a Windows XP machine and have had no problems so the difficulty seems to be Vista not R, however they aren't playing together nicely as they should.) The CRAN installation of R-2.4.0 on the Vista machine was without
incident,
but after downloading the zipped packages from CRAN I get this error message:
utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
trying URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/RColorBrewer_0.2-3.zip
' Content type 'application/zip' length 39787 bytes opened URL downloaded 38Kb Error in zip.unpack(pkg, tmpDir) : cannot open file 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.4.0/library/file6fc97ac2/RColorBrewer/chtml/RColorBrewer.chm' Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
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