I'd appreciate a tip on (re-)installing libraries for R on my windows machine? I have a windows (Windows 7) ?computer and a recent version of R installed (3.3.2). ?I discovered that when I install R libraries they install to the "my documents" folder rather than to "program files"This seems to also create problems installing the dependent libraries when a library installs. I'm presuming that R libraries are not installing to "program files" due to some permission/administrator privilege problems. I have tried manually copying files from my documents to program files which didn't seem to completely fix the problem. I also installed "r studio" but that hasn't resolved the problem of libraries not finding other libraries it depends on.A specific example, typically I use Frank Harrel's HMISC, however in my current installation it doesn't find "openssl".? installation tips appreciated. ?Chris Barker, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics - UIC-SPH and President and Owner Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc. www.barkerstats.com 415 609 7473 skype: barkerstats
R install/libraries
2 messages · Chris, Jeff Newmiller
You seem to have shafted yourself by thinking you need to run R as administrator... ever. Use Run as Administrator to run the command line and delete your My Documents/R folder and then exit that command line and stay out of it and don't run R as administrator again, because by doing so you prevent yourself from using it as it is intended... non-administrator. Don't make any effort to modify the system library. It is unnecessary and only causes trouble. If R doesn't re-create your personal library for you then you can re-create My Documents/R/win-library/3.3 yourself with File Explorer. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2013-March/349131.html fortunes::fortune(337)
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 8, 2017 8:52:24 PM PST, Chris <chris.barker at barkerstats.com> wrote: >I'd appreciate a tip on (re-)installing libraries for R on my windows >machine? >I have a windows (Windows 7) ?computer and a recent version of R >installed (3.3.2). ?I discovered that when I install R libraries they >install to the "my documents" folder rather than to "program files"This >seems to also create problems installing the dependent libraries when a >library installs. >I'm presuming that R libraries are not installing to "program files" >due to some permission/administrator privilege problems. >I have tried manually copying files from my documents to program files >which didn't seem to completely fix the problem. >I also installed "r studio" but that hasn't resolved the problem of >libraries not finding other libraries it depends on.A specific example, >typically I use Frank Harrel's HMISC, however in my current >installation it doesn't find "openssl".? >installation tips appreciated. >?Chris Barker, Ph.D. >Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics - UIC-SPH >and >President and Owner >Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc. >www.barkerstats.com >415 609 7473 >skype: barkerstats > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.