Does R run under Windows Vista/7/Server 2008?
It does. A few issues have been reported that related to the way accounts and file permissions work. (These are not specifically R issues, but changes in user experiences.) Earlier versions of Windows had user and Administrator accounts, and user accounts could be give administrative privileges (by being added to the local Administrators group) and so write permission over system areas such as c:\Program Files. R would be installed either by a user in his own file space or by an account with administrator privileges into a system area. Sysadmins could set policies for user accounts, and you might for example have needed to be a `Power User’ to install software at all. Vista normally disables the Administrator account and expects software installation to done by an account which is in the local Administrator group with `admin approval mode’ turned on. (The Administrator account by default has it turned off.) Unlike (say) Windows XP, such accounts do not run programs with full administra
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