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rtoolsinstallerror.md

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

RegCreateKeyEx failed; code 5
Access is denied.

Click Retry to try again, Ignore to proceed anyway, or Abort to cancel
installation.

Any ideas? Do you think this is the solution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327507

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ghost commented Feb 16, 2015

Hi Sckott,

I also receive this error message when trying to install Rtools on my work machine. Did your friend manage to find a solution?

Thanks,
Tom

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