Naive question about permissions
Dear All, Sorry for cluttering up the list and whatnot, and thanks for the support. As noted, the clue was in the PopUp menu telling me I couldn't use R. On the offchance someone in the future hits this email trail, I've been told by the sysadmin who fixed this: "I simply allowed the frameworks and commands to be able to run as they are not in the normal path. The /usr/bin/R is alias to inside the frameworks folder in /Library, and not /usr/bin on /Volumes/System/" Best Paul
On 20/10/12 13:34, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Paul Hewson wrote:
Thanks very much all, I'm still sure this is mac naivety on my part,
but I'm still curious how I've managed to foul up what seems like such a simple procedure.
John's longer point - I'm going to check out removing and
re-installing. I had to enter a system password and checkbox that I wanted all users to be able to use R. I can certainly use R GUI as myself so don't entirely understand how I gave R gui different ownerships/permissions that R console.
Regarding the other questions (my naive and presumably wrong thought
was that I need to put myself as a user in group admin, but I'm not sure that's entirely correct).
John's question R.home() gives "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources" Checking permissions gives pm6-0068:~ phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework total 40 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 18 Oct 11:16 Headers ->
Versions/Current/Headers
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 30 18 Oct 11:16 Libraries ->
Versions/Current/Resources/lib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 31 18 Oct 11:16 PrivateHeaders ->
Versions/Current/PrivateHeaders
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 18 18 Oct 11:16 R -> Versions/Current/R lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 26 18 Oct 11:16 Resources ->
Versions/Current/Resources
drwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 170 18 Oct 21:22 Versions Simon's question, yes typing R in the console gives me a the dialog
box, but the console does also gives me the following:
/usr/bin/R: line 259:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Permission denied
/usr/bin/R: line 259:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Undefined error:
(same for R vanilla)
Are you running any anti-virus software or other haxxies? The thing is that R will not show any dialog box since it is a console tool, so the dialog box has to come from some other software that may be causing the issue in the first place ...
Davor's question yields: phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin total 10176 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1828 22 Jun 20:16 BATCH -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2112 22 Jun 20:16 COMPILE -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 823 22 Jun 20:16 INSTALL -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1579 22 Jun 20:16 LINK lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 3 18 Oct 11:18 R -> R64 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 8773 18 Oct 11:18 R32 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 8775 18 Oct 11:18 R64 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 158 22 Jun 20:16 REMOVE -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1374 22 Jun 20:16 Rcmd -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 312 22 Jun 20:16 Rd2pdf -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 359 22 Jun 20:16 Rdconv -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 258 22 Jun 20:16 Rdiff -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 310 22 Jun 20:16 Rprof -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 37992 22 Jun 20:18 Rscript -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 155 22 Jun 20:16 SHLIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 318 22 Jun 20:16 Stangle -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 316 22 Jun 20:16 Sweave -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 41048 5 Nov 2011 arch -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 317 22 Jun 20:16 build -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 317 22 Jun 20:16 check -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 7486 22 Jun 20:16 config drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 22 Jun 20:16 exec -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3600 22 Jun 20:16 f77_f2c -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2326336 22 Jun 20:18 fc-cache -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 13760 22 Jun 20:16 javareconf -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 274347 22 Jun 20:16 libtool -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3494 22 Jun 20:16 mkinstalldirs -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 413 22 Jun 20:16 pager -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2385276 22 Jun 20:18 qpdf -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 4121 22 Jun 20:16 rtags Best paul -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dr. Paul Hewson Editor, Teaching Statistics (www.teachingstatistics.co.uk) Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Statistics School of Computing and Mathematics University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA tel (01752) 586870 fax (01752) 586900 VoIP: sip:pjhewson at ekiga.net email: paul.hewson at plymouth.ac.uk web: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/phewson -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
________________________________________ From: Davor Cubranic [cubranic at stat.ubc.ca] Sent: 20 October 2012 03:40 To: Paul Hewson Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions On 12-10-19 02:28 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: As I say, I think I've tracked the symlink itself as well as the files it links to /usr/bin/R is itself a symlink to R64. All three users have an x when you do ls -l , they don't all have r and w. Can you show us the output of running: ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin Davor _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
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