Setting pywin32 permission - win32api.pyd is prohibited

I need to use win32api for rpy2. So I went to http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32 and tried to install it using pip. However, I have errors below. How can I overcome this failure resolution problem?


C:\Anaconda\Scripts\pip-script.py run on 07/09/15 16:48:30 Unpacking c:\users\myname\downloads\pywin32-219-cp34-none-win_amd64.whl Installing collected packages: pywin32 Found existing installation: pywin32 218.4 Uninstalling pywin32: Removing file or directory c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\pywin32-218.4-py2.7.egg-info Successfully uninstalled pywin32 Rolling back uninstall of pywin32 Replacing c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\pywin32-218.4-py2.7.egg-info Cleaning up... Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 241, in run requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1298, in install requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 595, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 815, in move_wheel_files move_wheel_files(self.name, self.req, wheeldir, user=self.use_user_site, home=self.target_dir) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 172, in move_wheel_files clobber(source, lib_dir, True) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 166, in clobber shutil.move(srcfile, destfile) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 301, in move copy2(src, real_dst) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 130, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "C:\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Anaconda\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32api.pyd' 
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If this is only a failure resolution situation, try adding sudo to pip (Note: there must be an administrator / admin level)

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