[R] Problem in Installing packages in R 2.9.2

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 18:43:13 CEST 2009


The first warning is just telling you which library its going to use.  Unless
you didn't want to use that library its of no concern.

The second warning is a permissions problem with updating the help files.
Try running R as Administrator (or install R into your user area).


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM, mohsin ali <ali.mohsin at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Sir
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> When I use install.packages("cvt') for installing packages using R 2.9.2 I have the following problem
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>> install.packages("ctv")
> Warning in install.packages("ctv") :
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Users\Amina\Documents/R/win-library/2.9'
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL 'http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/ctv_0.5-3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 235387 bytes (229 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 229 Kb
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> package 'ctv' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
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> The downloaded packages are in
>        C:\Users\Amina\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpDkguEg\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message:
> In file.create(f.tg) :
>  cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.2/doc/html/packages.html', reason 'Permission denied'
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> Please help in this matter.
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> Mohsin Ali




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