Dear All: good morning I am trying to install the "" package, but I am getting this error message. *> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()* *Warning in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type) :* * 'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.1/library"' is not writable* *Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type type) : * * unable to install packages* *>* When I select the ISwR package from the list I got I message saying "*Question? Would you like to use a personal library instead?*" I answered by No. Then it gives me the above message. Thank you for your time. with thanks abou ______________________ AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Southern Maine [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
What if you answer 'Yes' ? On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa < abouelmakarim1962 at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear All: good morning > > I am trying to install the "" package, but I am getting this error message. > > > *> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()* > *Warning in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type > = type) :* > * 'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.1/library"' is not writable* > *Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type > type) : * > * unable to install packages* > *>* > > When I select the ISwR package from the list I got I message saying > "*Question? > Would you like to use a personal library instead?*" I answered by No. Then > it gives me the above message. > > > Thank you for your time. > > > with thanks > abou > ______________________ > AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD > Professor of Statistics > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > University of Southern Maine > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I simply answered Yes, Yes, Yes. It works now. thank you very much abou On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Eric Berger <ericjberger at gmail.com> wrote:> What if you answer 'Yes' ? > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa < > abouelmakarim1962 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All: good morning >> >> I am trying to install the "" package, but I am getting this error >> message. >> >> >> *> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()* >> *Warning in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, >> type >> = type) :* >> * 'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.1/library"' is not writable* >> *Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type >> >> type) : * >> * unable to install packages* >> *>* >> >> When I select the ISwR package from the list I got I message saying >> "*Question? >> Would you like to use a personal library instead?*" I answered by No. Then >> it gives me the above message. >> >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> >> with thanks >> abou >> ______________________ >> AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD >> Professor of Statistics >> Department of Mathematics and Statistics >> University of Southern Maine >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti >> ng-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > >-- ______________________ AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Southern Maine [[alternative HTML version deleted]]