You need to use 'Run as admininistrator' for just the session updating
those packages (assuming you installed R with administrator privileges and
are running it without: you did not say).
This is covered in rw-FAQ Q2.24.
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Vista my R installation is in
>
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0
>
> and there is a library here:
>
> %userprofile%\Documents\R\win-library\2.6
>
> If I use the GUI Packages menu to update my library it
> works ok _except_ for any packages such as lattice and
> the VR bundle that come with R. For those I get this (this
> is what I got when I tried to update lattice but I get a similar
> message for the VR bundle as well):
>
>> update.packages(ask='graphics')
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l,
> contriburl = contriburl, :
> 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library"' is not writable
> Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l,
> contriburl = contriburl, :
> unable to install packages
>
> I am using R-2.6.1 (even though the directory says 2.6.0) since I
> tend to write over the prior directory if its just an upgrade involving
> the last digit of the R version.
>
>> R.version.string
> [1] "R version 2.6.1 Patched (2007-12-06 r43610)"
>
> How should I go about updating lattice and the VR bundle?
>
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