Dear all Ubuntu users I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the following messages:
trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/src/contrib/QCAGUI_1.2-7.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1017887 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 994Kb mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK': Permission denied ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' for modifying The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpJxvMD5/downloaded_packages Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'QCAGUI' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages() 2: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) Does anyone have any suggestions, please about how I can unlock the appropriate directory. Many thanks Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/