[R] install vegan

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Nov 3 13:46:34 CET 2010



On 03.11.2010 10:39, Carolin wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install Vegan, but I allways get the following error
> message:
>
> Warning in install.packages(choose.files("", filters =
> Filters[c("zip",  :
>    'lib = "C:/Programme/R/R-2.12.0/library"' is not writable
> Error in install.packages(choose.files("", filters =
> Filters[c("zip",  :
>    unable to install packages
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
 >

> does anybody know what is wrong?

Yes: you do not have permission to write to 
"C:/Programme/R/R-2.12.0/library" where you are trying to install the 
package to.

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks in advance,
> Carolin
>
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