Windows 7 (Swedish): 'Rcmd INSTALL' fails (SOLVED)

Uwe, thanks!

The switch from "Program" to "Program Files" made it (stupid Windows!).

I tried the "--library=." flag because I got the error message

path[2]="C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/library": Access denied

without it, and naively thought that I had a permission problem.
This was strange, because I am the administrator of my Windows machines.

BTW, why can't I, as an administrator, install packages in

"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" ?

This is of course a very minor problem, since I never do anything useful
on Windows machines.

Best,

G?ran Brostr?m

Uwe Ligges skrev 2013-07-21 00:51:

On 21.07.2013 00:26, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:

I am trying to build a Windows zip file of a private package by

C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/bin/x64/Rcmd INSTALL --build --library=.
epigen_0.1.tar.gz

Why --library=. ?
Do you have appropriate poermissions to do that? In this case, you need
to start everything with admin priviliges explicitly unless your Windows
is configured differently.

but I get errors like

1: package 'datasets' in options("defaultPackages") was not found

and, finally,

Error in normalsizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
path[1]="C:/Program/R/R-3.0.1/library/tools": Atkomst nekad
(Access denied)

This is on a Swedish version of Windows 7. I noticed that the R
installer called the installation directory "Program Files" instead of
"Program" (despite my effort to change it), so I tried the same thing

But there is "Program Files", "Program" is just something like a link
shown by the Windows Explorer that actually points to "Program Files".

with an English version of Windows 7 (on another machine), and there
everything went as expected.

I installed R on both machines today so the setups should be identical,
except for the languages. What can be wrong? Can it be a language/path
thing?

Probably not the language but different admin settings.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

Thanks for any insight!

G?ran Brostr?m