Barry DeCicco
2013-Dec-18 21:43 UTC
[R] Problems with Installing R ('failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs")
Hello, I’m trying to install R 3.02 for windows on a Windows 7 machine (we were just upgraded from Windows XP). It’s a networked machine in a work environment. I have administrator rights. Program files go on C; data is stored on D (it's a partitioned drive). I get the message 'failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs" I searched, and found some stuff on the Microsoft website, which made me believe that I needed to unlock a folder with my user name. There are two, one in ‘C:\Users’, which has a padlock symbol on it, and another in ‘D:\’m which doesn’t have a padlock icon. Both had been set to read only; I removed that. I’ve not been able to find anything on the CRAN website about this. Has anybody run into this problem before? Thank you very much, Barry DeCicco [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Prof Brian Ripley
2013-Dec-19 06:28 UTC
[R] Problems with Installing R ('failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs")
You didn't say what gave that message (and there is no 'R 3.02': did you mean 3.0.2?). If this came from the installer, that is not part of R: look for info on 'Inno Setup'. On 18/12/2013 21:43, Barry DeCicco wrote:> ? > Hello, > ? > I???m trying to install R 3.02 for windows on a Windows 7 machine (we were just upgraded from Windows XP). > It???s a networked machine in a work environment.? I have administrator rights. > Program files go on C; data is stored on D (it's a partitioned drive). > ? > I get the message 'failure to expand shell folder constant "userdocs" > ? > I searched, and found some stuff on the Microsoft website, which made me believe that? I needed to unlock a folder with my user name.? There are two, one in ???C:\Users???, which has a padlock symbol on it, and another in ???D:\???m which doesn???t have a padlock icon.? Both had been set to read only; I removed that.? > ? > I???ve not been able to find anything on the CRAN website about this. > ? > Has anybody run into this problem before? > ? > ? > Thank you very much, > ? > Barry DeCicco > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > 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. >Please do. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595