I have installed windows 7 just fine via VM Fusion, but am having trouble setting environment variables, as i cannot edit files on the C: drive.
A specific example is the trouble i'm having with R (i am also having trouble setting up gvim). I think both are related, so i'll just show the R problem.
The problem with R is that i cannot install packages, as i do not have permission.
Warning in install.packages("xts") :
'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.1/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages("xts") :
unable to create ‘\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Documents/R/winlibrary/3.2’
In addition: Warning message:
In dir.create(userdir, recursive = TRUE) :
cannot create dir '\\vmware-host\Shared Folders', reason 'Invalid argument'
I have hacked around this by setting the .libPaths variable manually (.libPaths("Z:/Documents/Winz/Rstuff/pax/")), however the packages do not survive a re-boot of the VM Windows emulator.
In any case, as i cannot get R to pick up the .Rprofile file, no matter where i place it (nor will it pick up the edits i've made to Rprofile.site).
I am sure it's must be something about permissions, as i also cannot get gvim to pick up my .vimrc ... but i cannot figure it out.
Any help very much appreciated.
