R help - Sep 2003 - Problem in installing "quantreg" package

Hi,

I was trying to install "quantreg" package in an R session, but got
the
following error message:

ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library'

Can anyone suggest what I need to do?

Swagata Nandi

You probably do not have permission to write to that directory (and you 
need write permission to install a package).  I assume you are on Unix?  
Either ask your system administrator to install it for you or install it 
into a directory where you have permission.  For example, I make a 
subdirectory called "R-local" in my home directory for installing my
own
packages.  Look at ?Startup to see how you can get R to recognize your 
local package directory.

-roger

Swagata Nandi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was trying to install "quantreg" package in an R session, but
got the
>following error message:
>
>ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library'
>
>Can anyone suggest what I need to do?
>
>Swagata Nandi
>
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>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
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>
>  
>
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Swagata Nandi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to install "quantreg" package in an R session, but
got the
> following error message:
> 
> ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library'
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I need to do?
> 
> Swagata Nandi
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> 
> 
You probably have not the right to write in that directory. You should 
either ask your system's administrator to grant you the needed 
privileges or find another directory in which you can write an then read 
the package's doc to find out any configuration option to specify the 
installation directory).

Hope this helps,
Laurent