On Jun 26, 2004, at 9:41 AM, stefano iacus wrote:
Thanks for raising this problem. I agree, the installer should not change the permissions on /Applications (but user can decide to install the application somewhere else and move it to /Applications later as a temporary solution)
It only affects the directory where you choose to install R.app (the few KB application). So the rest of your system is safe (at least)
As for the R.framework: it should stay in /Library/Frameworks in this release as well as for 1.9.0. So nothing changes there
I've just upload a new version of the installer on CRAN. It will take till tomorrow to propagate on the web.
Apart from this (serious) issue: user should upgrade always to the latest version of R
As said in the ReadMe file, you should install the libxml2 package if you use Panther (which seems to be your case).
sorry, you should "NOT" install it on Panther. stefano
stefano
On Jun 26, 2004, at 2:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Full_Name: david Reitter Version: 1.9.1 OS: Mac OS X 10.3 Submission from: (NULL) (18.85.44.174)
The installer package seems to change the permissions on the /Applications
folder (and probably on other folders as well), which means that a normal user
(that does not happen to have user id 501) cannot open the Applications folder
anymore. Both group and user are changed to id '501' (which doesn't exist on my
system). 501 is usually the first user on a system.
Also, it seems to change permissions of the root directory /.
Running Disk Utility ("repair permissions") helps in such a case -- provided you
are able to run Disk Utility without accessing your Applications folder (which
might be hard for the non-techie).
The libxml package that is included does the same kind of BS, but this time with
the less important /usr folder.
I could reproduce the problem by installing R again after I ran the system's
repair permissions script.
I wonder if this is a general problem with Apple's installer.
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