similar to: R doesn't want to update packages (Windows 7)

I have been trying to update some R packages but I get the following error. Can you advise how mow to get around this . I am using the R for 64 bit windows. --- 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-211~1.1-X/library"' is not writable

Hello, everybody I have R 2.5.1 now installed on a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. I have problems updating the packages. Here is what I get at the prompt when I try to update: > update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/car_1.2-2.zip' Content type

To whom it concenrt I am trying to update the R program 2.9 This is the message that the program give is: > update.packages(ask='graphics') Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-29~1.0/library"' is not writable Erro em install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"],

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

Hi! As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using "update.packages()" and got the following warning messages: Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'lmtest' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl, 2: installation of package 'quadprog' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[,

I am moving from windoze on a Dell laptop to Debian but I seem to have hit a snag for R. I managed to find the information to point an /etc/apt/sources.list entry at my local CRAN repository and have installed R 2.13.1 for squeeze from the Bristol UK repository. I installed a number of the additional R packages using synaptic which reported no errors but when I run my first

Had some packages fail install so I updated to today's R-beta release. On updating packages the following packages still fail. sessionInfo follows. Mark Warning messages: 1: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : installation of package 'MANOR' had non-zero exit status 2: In install.packages(update[instlib == l,

Hello! I am trying to create a formula object using as.formula. But it's not working: examplephraze<-"for.my.example" myformula<-as.formula(paste(examplephraze,"~group, sum, data=mydata",sep="")) What's the problem? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Running R.2.11.1, debian linux, I tried to update.packages as root within R and get errors for cairoDevice and latticeExtra I don't know how to fix. For cairoDevice, I don't know what gtk+2.0 is; for latticeExtra, I'm surprised that R cannot find RColorBrewer built for R 2.10+ What to do? > old.packages() Package LibPath Installed Built

Dear R-list, I have encountered the following error message trying to update R packages: > update.packages(ask='graphics') Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : unable to

Hello! I wrote a function that returns a data frame. Nowhere in the function do I say print(my.data.frame), but when I run the function - the data frame is printed on the console. Is there any way to suppress it? Thank you! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Hi, I run windows vista ultimate in my laptop and run R 2.5 I am trying to update the packages but it comes up with an error message ""Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, :

Hello! s<-"start"; e<-"end" middle<-as.character(c(1,2,3)) I would like to get the following result: "start 123 end" or "start 1 2 3 end" or "start 1,2,3 end" How can I avoide this (undesired) result: paste(s,middle,e,sep=" ") Thank you! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

I'm running Linux Ubuntu and tried to update my packages using the update.package() command. It appeared to download the updates ok but I got the following message: The downloaded packages are in ?/tmp/RtmpFM82Ry/downloaded_packages? Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "/usr/lib/R/site-library"' is

R-help, I recently updated R from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1 (32-bit Windows version) and now have a problem updating packages. I am running Windows 7 as operating system. As the FAQ suggests, I uninstalled 2.13.0 before installing 2.13.1. On first opening R, I ran "update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) ras also recommended and selected the NS Cran mirror. On doing this the following error

I tried to update my packages using update.packages() I got the following message: The downloaded packages are in ?/tmp/RtmpyDYdTX/downloaded_packages? Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "/usr/lib/R/library"' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l,

Anyone knows how to get around this message? I am trying to update some packages in R but I get the following message I use R for 64 bit windows. Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.14.1/library"' is not writable Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"],

Dear R-ers! I have x as a variable in a data frame x. x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee")) x$x<-as.character(x$x) x I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I replace all periods in x$x with spaces? sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of each period... Thanks a lot for your advice! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com

I know that I can use as.yearmon in the package "zoo" to find the year and the month of a date. I can use as. yearqtr to find the year and the quarter. But how can one find just the year of a date? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Dear R'rs, is there a function that checks if a given vector contains a certain value. E.g., x<-c(1,2,3,4). How can I get a TRUE or FALSE for whether x contains a 2? -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com Dimitri.Liakhovitski at ninah.com