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Message-ID: <52B2921B.5060007@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2013-12-19T06:28:43Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Problems with Installing R ('failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs")
In-Reply-To: <1387403026.40670.YahooMailNeo@web163004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

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:
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> Hello,
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> 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).
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> I get the message 'failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs"
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> 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.?
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> I???ve not been able to find anything on the CRAN website about this.
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> Has anybody run into this problem before?
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> Thank you very much,
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> Barry DeCicco
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Please do.

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