R help - Jul 2001 - after R 1.3: can not write to or create directory `~/lib/R'

Dear all,

I am running 

platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i386, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    3.0              
year     2001             
month    06               
day      22               
language R                

and have my own library path set up having

R_LIBS='~/lib/R'; export R_LIBS

in my bash_profile and

R_LIBS=/home/zs/lib/R/

in my .Renviron.

Before 1.3, there was no problem. Now if I download a package and try to
R CMD INSTALL it, I get the message

ERROR: cannot write to or create directory `~/lib/R'

Permissions are OK, and it worked just fine before! Anybody has the same?

Thanks,
Zsombor
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This sound like the problem Kevin Murphy also had a couple of days ago,
which Thomas Lumley kindly solved. The problem was the use of quotation
marks in R_LIBS. For more info see the thread "[R] installing tree pkg on
linux" at
http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2001/3516.html.

Hope this will help you too.

Henrik Bengtsson
h b @ m a t h s . l t h . s e
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`~/lib/R'
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am running
>
> platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i386
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i386, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    3.0
> year     2001
> month    06
> day      22
> language R
>
> and have my own library path set up having
>
> R_LIBS='~/lib/R'; export R_LIBS
>
> in my bash_profile and
>
> R_LIBS=/home/zs/lib/R/
>
> in my .Renviron.
>
> Before 1.3, there was no problem. Now if I download a package and try to
> R CMD INSTALL it, I get the message
>
> ERROR: cannot write to or create directory `~/lib/R'
>
> Permissions are OK, and it worked just fine before! Anybody has the same?
>
> Thanks,
> Zsombor
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