Problems with Installing R ('failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs")
You didn't say what gave that message (and there is no 'R 3.02': did you mean 3.0.2?). If this came from the installer, that is not part of R: look for info on 'Inno Setup'.
On 18/12/2013 21:43, Barry DeCicco wrote:
? Hello, ? I???m trying to install R 3.02 for windows on a Windows 7 machine (we were just upgraded from Windows XP). It???s a networked machine in a work environment.? I have administrator rights. Program files go on C; data is stored on D (it's a partitioned drive). ? I get the message 'failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs" ? I searched, and found some stuff on the Microsoft website, which made me believe that? I needed to unlock a folder with my user name.? There are two, one in ???C:\Users???, which has a padlock symbol on it, and another in ???D:\???m which doesn???t have a padlock icon.? Both had been set to read only; I removed that.? ? I???ve not been able to find anything on the CRAN website about this. ? Has anybody run into this problem before? ? ? Thank you very much, ? Barry DeCicco [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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