On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote:
Hi all,
I feel very comfortable with R in Windows, and am trying to switch over to
Linux. I have R 2.8.1 on Linux and it works great (so far), except for
I suspect you didn't install it in any of the ways described in the
R-admin manual. An RPM or .deb, perhaps? If so, please give details
and ask on r-sig-fedora or r-sig-debian as appropriate.
instalilng/updating packages. For example, using Emacs with ESS as a text
editor, I entered:
update.packages()
Here are some error messages:
/usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: 1088: cannot create
/usr/share/R/doc/html/search/index.txt: Permission denied
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpV6DGUE/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning messages:
1: In file.create(f.tg) :
cannot create file '/usr/share/R/doc/html/packages.html', reason
'Permission denied'
2: In tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) :
cannot create HTML package index
I thought this was a permissions-based issue, so I learned online that to
grant permissions to everything in my R directories, to do this in the Linux
terminal:
chmod -R 777 ./directory
And I applied that to several R directories, including /usr/lib/R and a
place in /home where I store all my scripts, data sets, etc. I thought that
would solve it, but I'm still getting the same permissions-based errors. I
could really use some help from someone who knows Linux. Thanks.
It _is_ a permissions issue on /usr/share/R: note what the error
messages say about problematic file paths.
I suspect you are trying to update packages that shipped with R: you
are expected to do that under the account used to install R (probably
root in your case). We install software under a separate account (not
root, not any regular user) and that enables us to do autmated updates
safely using a crontab job run from that acccount.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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