Installing R-packages via install.package
you can set your R_LIBS to e.g. export R_LIBS=/home/your_account/lib/R and use `R CMD INSTALL -l ~/lib/R mypkg' or `install.packages'. This is much better than having the packages in R_HOME (think of installing a new R :-) Torsten
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, M. Edward Borasky wrote:
I just did this last night on my Red Hat 7.1 Linux system. I can *download* packages with my normal user logon ID, but I can't install them unless I am "root", because the directory where the packages live is not one where I have write privileges. On a single-user system like my laptop this is not an issue, but on a multi-user system you will need to be a system administrator to do installs. Speaking of automatic downloads from CRAN, last night I noticed that there is a new package "sma". "update.packages" didn't seem to notice that there was a new package. Is that because the list "update.packages" looks at didn't get updated yet, or because "update.packages" only looks to update packages you already have? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Chief Scientist, Borasky Research http://www.borasky-research.net http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb mailto:znmeb at borasky-research.com mailto:znmeb at aracnet.com If there's nothing to astrology, how come so many famous men were born on holidays?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Sven Garbade Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:43 AM To: R-Help Subject: [R] Installing R-packages via install.package Hi there, I've successfully installed und updated some contributed R packages (R version 1.2.2 on Debian Linux, logged in as a normal user), but I'm wondering about this: [...] Could not open /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html at /usr/lib/R/share/perl/R/Rdlists.pm line 238. /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt: Permission denied /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: LibIndex: Permission denied DONE (MASS) [...] Permissions: $ ls -l /usr/lib/R/library/LibIndex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410 Feb 27 23:42 /usr/lib/R/library/LibIndex $ ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124212 Feb 27 23:42 /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt It's possible to load the package with e.g.
library(MASS)
but all installed contributed packages are not listed
library()
Packages in library `/usr/lib/R/library': base The R base package ctest Classical Tests eda Exploratory Data Analysis lqs Resistant Regression and Covariance Estimation modreg Modern Regression: Smoothing and Local Methods mva Classical Multivariate Analysis nls Nonlinear regression splines Regression Spline Functions and Classes stepfun Step Functions, including Empirical Distributions tcltk Interface to Tcl/Tk ts Time series function The packages are in their correct location (e.g. /usr/lib/R/library/MASS/). Maybe I have to change the permission of the above mentioned files manually and reinstall? Thanks, Sven -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._._._._._._
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