Re: [Bioc-devel] bioc AMI: permissions in R-libs

2016-08-25 Thread Obenchain, Valerie
I've regenerated the release (3.3) and devel (3.4) AMIs. New links are live on the website: http://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioconductor-cloud-ami/#ami_ids The approach we took was to install R (with no recommended packages) as root in /usr/local. In theory, these packages should not be update

Re: [Bioc-devel] bioc AMI: permissions in R-libs

2016-08-24 Thread Obenchain, Valerie
Hi Simon, Yes, this is a known problem. I will fix this for the Bioc 3.3 and 3.4 AMIs and will post back when it's done. Valerie On 08/24/2016 04:45 AM, Simon Anders wrote: > Hi > > I'm currently working with the Bioconductor Amazon Machine Instance > (AMI) for Bioc 3.3 (ami-64d43409) and wanted

[Bioc-devel] bioc AMI: permissions in R-libs

2016-08-24 Thread Simon Anders
Hi I'm currently working with the Bioconductor Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) for Bioc 3.3 (ami-64d43409) and wanted to install additional packages with biocLite(). This failed because about half of the sub-directories in ~/R-libs are not owned by the standard user 'ubuntu' but by root. Can this