Hi all, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes:
> Summary: > > The directory /usr/local/lib/R/site-library can be used for site-wide > multi-user installations of R. > > This is even the default on Debian and Ubuntu (following a suggestion by > Kurt and Fritz a decade ago over beers -- what could be better). However, > R enforces wrong permissions on directories and files there (removing > group-write) which effectively defeats this purpose, and breaks multiuser > installation: if Tom, Dick and Harry are members of group 'r-users', each > one can install in the directory, but neither can _upgrade_ a package > installed by one of the others. > > I would like to correct this. > This is just a message from a user who would greatly appreciate such a change. We have written a script based on inotify to correct that group writing permissions which we would gladly dismiss again. Best, Andreas ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
