R help - Jan 2004 - File permissions and packages, openVignette

Hi,
I've got a quick question about file permissions and packages...

I'm creating my own package, and am having problems with its vignette
not being seen when I install it into R...

As I understand it, the permissions of the source tree should be as
follows:
  o Directories - drwxrwxr-- 
  o Files -         -rw-r--r--
 
Everything builds and runs through 'R CMD check' fine with no warnings
or errors...

I now install the package as root, and again it goes in fine - and I can
see the library, its functions, and their man pages, when I fire up R.

However, when I call openVignette(), my package vignette is not visible.

Going into the file system, finding the installed library, and doing
'chmod -R 777 *' on the package, seems to fix the problem, without
breaking anything else.

However, I suspect I'm not supposed to do this! :-) Can anyone tell me
what permissions I should have on my 'inst/' and 'doc/'
directories for
the vignette to be visible to openVignette, or anything else I need to
do to make my package install so that the vignette is visible?

Cheers,
Crispin
 
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>>>>> "Crispin" == Crispin Miller <CMiller at
picr.man.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:08:01 -0000 writes:
    Crispin> Hi,
    Crispin> I've got a quick question about file permissions and
packages...

    Crispin> I'm creating my own package, and am having problems
    Crispin> with its vignette not being seen when I install it
    Crispin> into R...

    Crispin> As I understand it, the permissions of the source tree should be
as
    Crispin> follows:
    Crispin> o Directories -   drwxrwxr-- 
    Crispin> o Files -         -rw-r--r--

No.  Directories (most of the time) need the 'x' bit everywhere
(and typically shouldn't be group writable) hence:

o  Directories -   drwxr-xr-x  (aka 755) 
o  Files       -   -rw-r--r--  (aka 644)

I don't know if this solves your problem.

Regards,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
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