R installation in a multiple-user Windows environment - R-help

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 9:52 AM #

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

Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)
University of California, Davis
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Uwe Ligges

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 10:45 AM #

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

See the manual R Installation and Administration and how to set up per 
user library paths.

Uwe Ligges

Brian Ripley

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 11:08 AM #

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:

Which ought to happen automatically (does here), but Windows is 
sometimes confused about permissions, especially on network-mounted 
drives.

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Jonathan Greenberg

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 11:10 AM #

Hmm, perhaps I'm missing the relevant section in the R Installation and 
Administration manual -- here is the error I'm getting:

package 'akima' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'gam' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local 
Settings\Temp\7\RtmpR1XJ61\downloaded_packages
updating HTML package descriptions
Warning message:
In file.create(f.tg) :
  cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-28~1.1/doc/html/packages.html', 
reason 'Permission denied'

So the packages are getting installed fine, but that final section seems 
to be throwing an error.  Its installing to a read-only (for a non-admin 
user) location.

--j

Uwe Ligges wrote:

Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
The Barn, Room 250N
Davis, CA 95616
Cell: 415-794-5043
AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn307 at hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307

Uwe Ligges

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 11:17 AM #

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

Ah I see, this is just a warning (not an error) that is expected.

Uwe Ligges