Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902031907350.24544@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2009-02-03T19:08:44Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: R installation in a multiple-user Windows environment
In-Reply-To: <498890C5.1000503@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>> We're having some issues with installing R in a multiple user Windows
>> environment (e.g. when a user installs a package, there are errors linked
>> to attempting to install certain files into restricted directories). Is
>> there a readme for how to install R properly for multiple users? Thanks!
>>
>> --j
>>
>
> See the manual R Installation and Administration and how to set up per user
> library paths.
Which ought to happen automatically (does here), but Windows is
sometimes confused about permissions, especially on network-mounted
drives.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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