R help - Jun 2011 - R 2.13.0 on windows 7 x32 - always requires admin to run

I have a faculty member who installed R 2.13.0 on a windows 7 (x32)
machine.  When they run it, it always requests an administrator
password and the icon has the shield on it that indicates it needs to
run in Admin mode.  I went back to my student computer lab and it has
2.12.0 and it runs fine without running as admin.  I then downloaded
2.12.2 on to their system and it runs fine without needing Admin
privs.  What has changed in 2.13.0 to always need admin to run.  Is
this a bug?  I looked around for some settings to allow this version
to run as non-admin, but couldn't find anything.  Anyone have
suggestions to get 2.13.0 working on win7 x32?

Thanks.

-wes

Reinstall it. Most people prefer to install it using an account with
administrator privileges, but don't run the install using the "Run As
Administrator" option, and don't re-run the install if windows suggests
doing that. Install libraries locally (%HOMEPATH%\R\win-library\2.13 should be
the default in this configuration). If you need to update base libraries you
will need to run RGui as administrator (right-click to get the popup menu with
this option), but you should update all other libraries first without the run as
administrator option. (This makes getting a new version of R configured quicker
too, since you can copy the old installed per user libraries to the new
directory and run update.libraries () at the R prompt.)
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Wes James <comptekki@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a faculty member who installed R 2.13.0 on a windows 7 (x32)
machine. When they run it, it always requests an administrator
password and the icon has the shield on it that indicates it needs to
run in Admin mode. I went back to my student computer lab and it has
2.12.0 and it runs fine without running as admin. I then downloaded
2.12.2 on to their system and it runs fine without needing Admin
privs. What has changed in 2.13.0 to always need admin to run. Is
this a bug? I looked around for some settings to allow this version
to run as non-admin, but couldn't find anything. Anyone have
suggestions to get 2.13.0 working on win7 x32?

Thanks.

-wes

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