R help - Mar 2004 - R and tmp directroy

Hi all,

When I start R, it gives

mkdir: Ne peut cr?er le r?pertoire `/home/mart/tmp/Rtmp11729'.: No such file
or directory


(I specify that my home path is /home/mart and the R version is 1.7.1)

How I have to configure R to use the directory /tmp instead of 
/home/mart/tmp ?
What is utility of this directory tmp for R?


Thanks,
Olivier

Finally, i found the answer for my question...
it is only necessary to add
setenv TMPDIR /tmp/
in my .cshrc



Martin Olivier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I start R, it gives
>
> mkdir: Ne peut cr?er le r?pertoire `/home/mart/tmp/Rtmp11729'.: No 
> such file or directory
>
>
> (I specify that my home path is /home/mart and the R version is 1.7.1)
>
> How I have to configure R to use the directory /tmp instead of 
> /home/mart/tmp ?
> What is utility of this directory tmp for R?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Olivier
>
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Probably you have TMPDIR set in your enviroment to point to 
/home/mart/tmp and that does not exist or is not writable.

Solution: don't have variables pointing to inappropriate places?

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Martin Olivier wrote:
> When I start R, it gives
> 
> mkdir: Ne peut cr?er le r?pertoire `/home/mart/tmp/Rtmp11729'.: No such
file or directory
> 
> 
> (I specify that my home path is /home/mart and the R version is 1.7.1)
> 
> How I have to configure R to use the directory /tmp instead of 
> /home/mart/tmp ?
> What is utility of this directory tmp for R?
For temporary files, like all other Unix/Linux applications.
See ?tempdir as well as internal uses (for HTML links, the editor temp 
file and so on).


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