Hello, I administer a student (Windows based) computer lab, which has R installed. I want to permit students to install R packages, but of course they don't have write permission to R root folder. Following FAQ suggestion, I've set up a folder that they can write to, and set the R_LIB parameter on the shortcut to this folder. So far, so good - they can now install packages. However, I have not found any way to get the corresponding help files installed.
FAQ says the help files require write permission to R installation folder. This seems pretty extreme. Is there some subfolder that would do the trick? Any way to have an alternate place to store help files, just as we are using an alternate location for packages? I tried giving users Modify permission to R..../doc/html folder. With this, install package does NOT give any error for insufficient permission to install help; help(package='package_name') works; however help(function, package='package_name') still does not work. Is there any good way out of this dilemma, short of giving users free permission to the entire R installation? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Eva Goldwater email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biostatistics Consulting Phone: (413) 545-2949 418 Arnold House Fax: (413) 545-1645 715 North Pleasant Street University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9304 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.