This issue only came up after I installed R3.5.2. Never had any problems with previous installations. So it is likely a bug in the current version. Any suggestions what to do now?
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:06 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > 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. > [[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.
