Hi R-Help, I have just downloaded RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. If I type owner@linux: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz i get the following error message makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission denied ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifing I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please. Thanks in advance, Tom __________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Werner Bier wrote:> Hi R-Help, > > I have just downloaded RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. > If I type > > owner at linux: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz > > i get the following error message > > makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission denied > ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifingDoes it really say that? 'makedir'? 'user'? I don't think so.> I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please.You don't have permission to install in that directory. Use an account that owns R and does, or install somewhere you do have permission. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Werner Bier wrote:> Hi R-Help, > > I have just downloaded RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. > If I type > > owner at linux: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz > > i get the following error message > > makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission denied > ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifingI doubt one directory starts with "user" and the other one with "usr". Do you have write permission to that directory? If yes, is 00LOCK already there? Then remove it. If no, install to a private library. Uwe Ligges> I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please. > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Thanks a lot! Let me try again... Werner Bier <aliscla@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi R-Help, I have just downloaded RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. If I type owner@linux: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz i get the following error message makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission denied ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifing I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please. Thanks in advance, Tom __________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]