R Package installation

Fri, Aug 12, 2016 5:07 PM

This may not have anything to do with the OP's problem, but if permissions are an issue then it should be mentioned. 

One problem that some windows users encounter is thinking they should "Run As"  administrator when installing or running R, rather than letting Windows UAE prompt them for privilege escalation as needed. 

The side effect of such an action is that (most? all?) files touched by R then become usable only by R running as administrator, and all sorts of weird problems ensue. It is much better to avoid ever running as administrator and updating all packages into the user-specific package library as needed, with the system-wide package library updated only when R is upgraded.

Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On August 12, 2016 4:50:22 PM PDT, John Dougherty <jwd at surewest.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:53:03 -0400
>"Dayalan, Nithya" <nithya.dayalan at merck.com> wrote:
>
>You don't say what OS you are using, though the packages you were
>trying to obtain are apparently for Windows.  You also don't say
>whether you are using something like R-Studio, or whether you are on a
>company network behind a firewall.
>
>If you have a sysop, you probably should be going through him or her.
>There's a very good chance that your system is lacking in permissions.
>Your network's settings are problem, or Windows or a recent update may
>be causing your trouble. You should also simply try opening the
>specific
>mirror URL sans the package info to see if you can see the page.

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