R help - Nov 2007 - How to set up your library location for multiple users

I'm running R 2.5.0 (with the upgrade to 2.6.0 scheduled) on a and
trying to write a few applications that will be run as myself, as my
boss and as the web server, on one of many Solaris x86 servers.

I'd like to have my library sharable, and I thought I had found the way
by putting this line early in my R scripts:

.lib.loc="/home/jacoby/My_R_Lib/"

But I tried that with my permissions and got this error:

Computing affinities[1] "Checking to see if your internet connection
works..."
Error in getCDF(cdfpackagename) : You do not have write access to
/usr/local/R-2.5.0/lib/R/library
Please check your permissions or provide a different 'lib' parameter.
Execution halted

Any pointers?

-- 
David Jacoby    jacoby at purdue.edu
  Purdue Genomics Facility
  S049, WSLR building
  Phone: hah!

Hi Dave,

Not sure what .lib.loc() is supposed to do, but you might want to look 
at section 6.2 of the R Installation and Administration manual, which 
covers library path issues.

Best,

Jim



Dave Jacoby wrote:
> I'm running R 2.5.0 (with the upgrade to 2.6.0 scheduled) on a and
> trying to write a few applications that will be run as myself, as my
> boss and as the web server, on one of many Solaris x86 servers.
> 
> I'd like to have my library sharable, and I thought I had found the way
> by putting this line early in my R scripts:
> 
> .lib.loc="/home/jacoby/My_R_Lib/"
> 
> But I tried that with my permissions and got this error:
> 
> Computing affinities[1] "Checking to see if your internet connection
> works..."
> Error in getCDF(cdfpackagename) : You do not have write access to
> /usr/local/R-2.5.0/lib/R/library
> Please check your permissions or provide a different 'lib'
parameter.
> Execution halted
> 
> Any pointers?
> 
-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623