similar problems installing Rcmdr with R.
On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:34 PM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear Mark,
-----Original Message----- From: Hebblewhite, Mark [mailto:Mark.Hebblewhite at umontana.edu] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:32 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] similar problems installing Rcmdr with R. Yes, the solution proposed by Rodney Sparapani below worked to fix my problem, but was a slightly different command than proposed to Sarah earlier. Thanks very much Rodney! It will be challenging to fix this problem, however, for other 'na?ve' users of MAC if the solution is different each time.
Just to be clear: sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/* didn't work, but sudo zsh chmod -R 755 /usr/local did work?
The later is bad, do NOT use it! It will set exec permissions on *everything* even files are are not supposed to be executable. You probably want sudo chmod -R a+rX /usr/local Cheers, Simon
Frankly, I don't get that, since the first command should insure that everyone has (at least) read and execute permission (i.e., level 5). I think that I'll add a trouble-shooting section to the Rcmdr Mac installation notes, but I would like to understand why one approach worked here and not the other. Best, John
Thanks very much John, Simon and Rodney! On 09/24/2013 07:45 AM, Hebblewhite, Mark wrote:
7. From previous posts on this list serve [http://grokbase.com/t/r/r-sig-mac/138nv3tj17/unable-to-load-rcmdr-
with-r-
3 -0-1-on-a-mac-os-x-10-8-3] I followed this set of instructions to see whether there were problems with my permissions:
system("ls -ld /usr/local /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libtcl*")
ls: /usr/local/lib: Permission denied ls: /usr/local/lib/libtcl*: Permission denied drwx------ 8 root wheel 272 Sep 24 10:21 /usr/local 8. But in my disk utilities I can see no clear disk permissions
related to
R. I ran repair disk permissions earlier today and there was 1 R
problem
but that?s been apparently fixed.
Hi Mark: I am assuming you came to Mac from Windows, rather than UNIX/Linux, right? On Mac OS X (and UNIX/Linux in general), you need to have permission to read/write/execute files. But, I think you can fix this rather easily. In a terminal... % sudo zsh # chmod -R 755 /usr/local