[R] Installing R-packages via install.package

Dirk Eddelbuettel's Neomail account
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:39:56 -0000

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:53:44PM +0200, Sven Garbade
wrote:
> I've successfully installed und updated some contributed R packages (R
> version 1.2.2 on Debian Linux, logged in as a normal user), but I'm
> wondering about this:
>
> [...]
> Could not open /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html at
> /usr/lib/R/share/perl/R/Rdlists.pm line 238.
> /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt: Permission
> denied
> /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: LibIndex: Permission denied
> DONE (MASS)
> [...]

Well, that's what permissions are for. Those files are owned by root (uid
1),
you are a user. On my systems at home and work, I always do this as root.
Ie, open a root shell, start R and call 'update.packages()'.

> /usr/lib/R/library/MASS/). Maybe I have to change the permission of the
> above mentioned files manually and reinstall?

Uh, no. Either you are root on that machine, or you're not. In the latter
case,
install into $HOME/R/library.