On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:12:09 -0800 (PST) Paul Heinrich Dietrich <paul.heinrich.dietr...@gmail.com> wrote:
PHD> I feel very comfortable with R in Windows, and am trying to switch PHD> over to Linux. I have R 2.8.1 on Linux and it works great (so PHD> far), except for instalilng/updating packages. For example, using PHD> Emacs with ESS as a text editor, I entered: I usually update R packages as superuser (terminal: su + pwd, type R, then update.packages() ). Maybe not the most secure way but other logins might use the updated packages as well and there are no permission problems. hth Stefan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.