Yes, that would be the personal library.
There is one question in the installer that asks if you would like to
create a personal library... I have always said yes, but I could imagine
that saying no could lead to problems.
On December 24, 2018 2:43:24 PM PST, Janh Anni <annijanh at gmail.com> wrote:
I am sorry I forgot to mention - I just looked in the
Documents\R\win-Library directory and only found folders for previous R
versions, specifically R3.0, 3.1 and 3.4. So I must have deleted the
R3.5
folder as you initially advised or it was removed during the
un-installation. Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by the
R3.5
personal package library? Thanks again
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 4:28 PM Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:
On December 24, 2018 11:14:40 AM PST, Janh Anni <annijanh at gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello Jeff, Martin,
I deleted 3.5.2 as suggested and tried 3.5.1 but still had the same
problems. I still couldn't use read.table to load a data file and
still
had an error message when I tried to install a package. Usually
installing a new version of R, I would go to the R icon on the
right click on it, click on Properties and then specify the folder
contains my data files in the "Start in" box, so that R
has
access to my data files. Could that possibly be causing problems
these newer versions of R?
Also, there?s never a prompt during the
installation to Run as Administrator, so that could not possibly be
Yes, you have to go out of your way to Run As Administrator (RAA).
However, regardless of how you initially encountered a problem, once
did that there could be any number of files contaminated with
issues.
Specifically, I said to delete your 3.5 personal package library, but
description is not specific so I suspect you may not have done that.
However, any file modified by you intentionally or not while using
could be causing your problems now, so now it is up to you to find
I also just tried Version 3.4.4, and had no problems whatsoever
with using read.table to load data files or downloading packages.
there
must be some changes from version 3.5 onward that created the
Hopefully this will be looked at more closely by the team with a
I doubt the "team" will spend much time looking at this based on your
descriptions so far. They need something reproducible, and the fact
you already used RAA to "fix" the problem makes anything you did
that almost impossible to reproduce.
fortunes:::fortune(337)
Thanks,
Janh
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 1:31 AM Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:
You could delete your 3.5 personal package library (using the File
Explorer with Run as Admin if necessary) and re-install your
without running as Admin. If that does not work try uninstalling R
re-installing 3.5.1.
On December 22, 2018 8:16:11 PM PST, Janh Anni
This issue only came up after I installed R3.5.2. Never had any
problems
with previous installations. So it is likely a bug in the
version. Any suggestions what to do now?
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:06 PM Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:
That normally only occurs if you have at some time used
permissions, beyond which point you fall into a downward spiral
permissions trouble. You are apparently already in trouble,
of your own making or due to a bug in the installer.
Also, never update the system R package library... always use a
library.
On December 22, 2018 6:01:44 PM PST, Janh Anni
Hi Jeff,
No, during the installation, there was not an option to Run as
Administration. But *after *installation, I found that if I
Run
as Administrator, then I could install packages using
as
usual without problems.
Thanks
Janh
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:26 PM Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:
Did you by any chance use Run As Administrator to install R?
you need to uninstall it and delete all files created by it
Documents/R/win-lib/3.5/) and re-install using UAC as
On December 22, 2018 5:10:27 PM PST, Janh Anni
Dear R Experts,
I use Windows 10 and just installed the new R version,
I
tried to load a data file using read.table, I got an error
this:
*Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection*
*In addition: Warning message:*
*In file(file, "rt") :*
* cannot open file 'StreamPCB.dat': No such file or
Also, I couldn't install packages using install.packages as
unless I
run R as Administrator
I wonder if anyone else had the same issues and any
fix?
Thanks a lot
Janh
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