I just encountered another mild funny in encounters with R 1.8.1. I did a make install (as root) of my newly built R 1.8.1. When I tried to test it I was told ``permission denied'' in respect of /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.bin. I had a look, and the permissions on R.bin were indeed -rwx------ 1 root other 7138492 Feb 10 16:52 R.bin* Every ***other*** file in the directory, except for one, had permissions -rwxr-xr-x as I would have expected (root's umask is 22). The one other oddball file was libRlapack.so which had permissions -rwx------ like unto R.bin. I changed the permissions and everything seems to be working now .... But ***why***? (And again, why me?) cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca