That normally only occurs if you have at some time used elevated permissions, beyond which point you fall into a downward spiral of more permissions trouble. You are apparently already in trouble, whether it was of your own making or due to a bug in the installer.
Also, never update the system R package library... always use a personal library. On December 22, 2018 6:01:44 PM PST, Janh Anni <annij...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Jeff, > >No, during the installation, there was not an option to Run as >Administration. But *after *installation, I found that if I selected >Run >as Administrator, then I could install packages using install.packages >as >usual without problems. > >Thanks >Janh > >On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:26 PM Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> >wrote: > >> Did you by any chance use Run As Administrator to install R? If so >then >> you need to uninstall it and delete all files created by it (e.g. >> Documents/R/win-lib/3.5/) and re-install using UAC as prompted. >> >> On December 22, 2018 5:10:27 PM PST, Janh Anni <annij...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >Dear R Experts, >> > >> >I use Windows 10 and just installed the new R version, R3.5.2 but >when >> >I >> >tried to load a data file using read.table, I got an error message >like >> >this: >> > >> >*Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection* >> >*In addition: Warning message:* >> >*In file(file, "rt") :* >> >* cannot open file 'StreamPCB.dat': No such file or directory* >> > >> >Also, I couldn't install packages using install.packages as usual, >> >unless I >> >run R as Administrator >> > >> >I wonder if anyone else had the same issues and any suggestions how >to >> >fix? >> > >> >Thanks a lot >> >Janh >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> >______________________________________________ >> >R-help@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. >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
