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Can only install packages in my (user) library, even as administrator

2 messages · Denis Chabot, Steve Lianoglou

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Denis Chabot
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Hi,

I made 3 changes within a few days of each other and I don?t know which one caused this. I always installed new pacages (and updated existing packages) in the main library on my Mac, not in the library folder of my own account.

But after putting a new hard drive in my Mac, updating R to 3.0.2 (from 3.0.1), updating my OS to Mavericks, I can no longer do so, I receive error messages telling me I?d have to use the command line if I insisted in doing it now. So I installed them in my own account. As I am the only R user on my Mac, it is not a great deal. But I am curious to know which of my 3 changes is to blame for the change. 

I forgot: my user account is an administrator account.

Thanks,

Denis Chabot
3 days later
Steve Lianoglou
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Hi,
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Denis Chabot <chabot.denis at gmail.com> wrote:
(1) Could you please copy/paste the exact error messages you are
getting? Paraphrasing it isn't very helpful.

(2)  Can you copy paste the output of the following command from the terminal:

$ ls -ld /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library

Mine looks like:

drwxrwxr-x  56 root  admin  1904 Nov 27 11:40
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library

(The leading `$` above is just a delimiter to suggest I am typing at
the terminal/bash prompt -- you don't type in `$`)

(3) Please copy/paste the output of the following command from the terminal:

$ groups YOUR_ACCOUNT

Where YOUR_ACCOUNT is whatever your user account is (ie. the name of
your home directory)

For instance, my user account is `lianogls` (my home directory is
/Users/lianogls), so I'd do:

$ groups lianogls

and the output is:

lianogls domainus com.apple.access_screensharing everyone _appstore
netaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _lpoperator
_developer


Thanks,
-steve