> On Aug 20, 2004, at 1:20 AM, Steven C. Bagley wrote: > >> Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately, I tried the "sudo rm ...", >> followed by reinstallation of R 1.9.1, which got nearly all the way >> through >> the installation process, and then stopped with an error. Log file >> follows: > > According to the log R was installed allright - so does it in fact work > or not? > > AFAICS it just doesn't have enough rights to create the convenience > symlink in /usr/bin, but that's not essential for R to work. Again the > fix in your case would be to bump up the rights of the installer - > admin doesn't seem to have enough rights on your computer. > I don't have a Jag machine here (there are no problems on Panther > AFAIK) to confirm it atm, but I suspect that the cause is the old R > 1.9.0 installer, which forced owner change on folders it shouldn't have > touched. This was fixed in the new installer (that is the new installer > doesn't force ownership anymore), but it cannot reverse the changes > made by the 1.9.0 installer. I'll dig out some old Jag machine and see > if I can reproduce it... but again, bumping up the rights should fix it > in any case. > > If you want to try it out, just for the fun of it, do the following: > open the R.dmg, go to the Packages folder and drag the "R > framework.pkg" to your desktop. > Now copy/paste the following in Terminal: > cd Desktop/R\ framework.pkg/Contents/ > chmod +w Info.plist > open Info.plist > > Now you'll see a tree-like structure of the plist file - expand the > branches and find the "IFPkgFlagAuthorizationAction" key with > "AdminAuthorization" value - change that value to "RootAuthorization", > save the file (cmd+s) and double-click on the "R framework.pkg" file. > That should perform the R installation without errors. Since I don't > know what goes on with the libxml package, you could try it on that > one, too.
My error. R 1.9.1 DID get installed correctly. Also, I did try your suggestions for editing the Info.plist (although used Emacs, as open did not cooperate), and the installation then re-ran without errors. Thanks so much for your help. --Steve ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
