similar to: update.packages() as ordinary user, /usr/lib/R/site-library is not writable

The specific message is: "Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library' will not be updated" and the number of libraries about which that's the complaint is now increasingly almost daily so clearly something is wrong. I'm working on a laptop on which I do the recommended Ubuntu updates daily. I done a standard installation of R 2.15.1 using

Just in case anyone else hits this. I just installed R 11.0 alongside R 10.1.0 (off my D: drive in D:\R\... but I think that's irrelevent) and all went well, I selected my nearest CRAN mirror (Bristol is the one I like) and getting the selection list seemed to take ages though it did come eventually. However, I then got an error message saying that R couldn't make contact on port 80. I

I may be being dopey, I surely am, but I'm baffled by this. I've been working, on and off for a few days in R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) working it through ESS. I've got a dataframe created a couple of days back, during the session: > dim(AllDat) [1] 27270 94 I came back this morning and misremembered my variables and thought I had a variable

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[,

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,

Dear R gurus, particularly those of generous M$ tolerance and diverse gifts and knowledge! I have an interesting challenge that I will end up crunching in R involving service usage by patients. Maybe I can do all of it in R but I can't see how yet. My situation is that our IT Department can give me loads of XLS files about patients one of our services have seen. The are one per patient

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've just installed R 2.11.1 on my new home PC. Just the base R. My PC has Windows 7. R was installed in C / Program Files (x86) / R - R-2.11.1 Then - through the menue - I went to Update packages, chose the mirror and R detected the few packages that needed to be updated. After I clicked on OK I got the following error message: > update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please

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, :

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

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"],

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

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"],

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

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

Hello, > version _ platform x86_64-w64-mingw32 arch x86_64 os mingw32 system x86_64, mingw32 status Patched major 3 minor 2.1 year 2015 month 07 day 16 svn rev 68681 language R version.string R version 3.2.1 Patched (2015-07-16 r68681) nickname World-Famous Astronaut I

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

I'm working on Windoze XP and have for some time installed R in D:\R and upgraded my packages after installing the new version of R with a bit of code I think I got from the list: ip <- installed.packages(lib.loc = "d:\\R\\R-2.4.1\\library") ip <- ip[ip[,1]!="base" ,1] install.packages(ip) This time around that's produced some warning grumbles: Warning messages: