A friend is trying to get Rtools installed correctly on her windows machine. It seems to install fine, but then at the end, she gets an error. The error below shows up in the Rtools installation wizard, and it suggest a permissions problem.
This is the error when trying to isntall Rtools on her machine
C:\Users\Chris\Documents\R\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3
Error creating registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment
| # Let's say you have an R object that you'd like to share with someone else | |
| # but, for whatever reason, it is necessary to share it in text form. | |
| # Generate a random data.frame | |
| set.seed(1337) | |
| NN <- 10 | |
| theData <- data.frame(Alpha = rnorm(NN), | |
| Beta = rnorm(NN)) | |
| theData$Gamma <- theData$Alpha * 2 + theData$Beta / 2 + rnorm(NN) | |
| print(theData) |
| Your name and email address were configured automatically based | |
| on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. | |
| You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly: | |
| git config --global user.name "Your Name" | |
| git config --global user.email [email protected] | |
| After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with: | |
| git commit --amend --reset-author |