R devel - Jul 2006 - Installation, permissions of /usr/local/lib/R (PR#9054)

Full_Name: Jori M?ntysalo
Version: 2.3.1
OS: Linux, GNU/Debian stable
Submission from: (NULL) (81.197.171.182)


I said
./configure --with-readline=no --with-x=no
make
make install

and everything works except that /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths was not readable
as normal user.

jori.mantysalo at uta.fi wrote:
>Full_Name: Jori M?ntysalo
>Version: 2.3.1
>OS: Linux, GNU/Debian stable
>Submission from: (NULL) (81.197.171.182)
>
>
>I said
>./configure --with-readline=no --with-x=no
>make
>make install
>
>and everything works except that /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths was not
readable
>as normal user.
>
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You don't say if you installed R as root or as a normal user.
Did you try:
chown your-user-name /usr/local/lib/R/ -R
?

Or, if you intend to make R available to several users, create a R users 
group and then type the previous command replacing "your-user-name" by
"R-users-group-name". Maybe this would help.

Thibaut.


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Thibaut Jombart <jombart at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr> writes:
> jori.mantysalo at uta.fi wrote:
> 
> >I said
> >./configure --with-readline=no --with-x=no
> >make
> >make install
> >
> >and everything works except that /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths was not
readable
> >as normal user.
> You don't say if you installed R as root or as a normal user.
> Did you try:
> chown your-user-name /usr/local/lib/R/ -R
> ?
> 
> Or, if you intend to make R available to several users, create a R users 
> group and then type the previous command replacing
"your-user-name" by
> "R-users-group-name". Maybe this would help.
More likely, the umask setting was too restrictive during make
install. AFAIR, "umask 022" (i.e. no write permission for anyone
except user, but read and execute allowed) is needed to enable
non-root users to run R. Some systems set it differently, and we're
not overriding that since it could be a policy issue. It's not a bug.

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On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>> make install
>>>
>>> and everything works except that /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths was
not readable
>>> as normal user.
> More likely, the umask setting was too restrictive during make
> install. AFAIR, "umask 022" (i.e. no write permission for anyone
> except user, but read and execute allowed) is needed to enable
> non-root users to run R. Some systems set it differently, and we're
> not overriding that since it could be a policy issue. It's not a bug.
Yep, umask was 077. Maybe 'make install' might warn about that after 
installation?

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Jori M?ntysalo