Hi William, 

You may have to run R as an administrator by right-clicking on the R icon and clicking on "Run As Administrator". Then try to install Amelia using the first approach above:

install.packages("Amelia", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")

Let us know if this doesn't work. 

Cheers,
matt.

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Matthew Blackwell
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Rochester
url: http://www.mattblackwell.org


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Shige Song <shigesong@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like you don't have high enough privilege on that machine.  Were you able to install other packages on the same machine?

Shige


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:58 PM, William Vanderbok <Vanderbok@socal.rr.com> wrote:
AmeliaView 1.6.4 running on a Windows 7 64-bit system, produces "can not find script file "C:/Windows/system32/amelia.vbs".

Trying again In R I get:

> install.packages("Amelia")
Warning in install.packages("Amelia") :
  'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.2/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages("Amelia") : unable to install packages

> install.packages("Amelia", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org", type = "source")
Warning in install.packages("Amelia", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org",  :
  'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.2/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages("Amelia", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org",  :
  unable to install packages

Clearly something is wrong.  Any suggestions?
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