Hello, Dirk (and everybody): I have Ubuntu on some systems and I notice there's a very nice thing you do with your R packages. The system is setup so that packages installed from deb go into /usr/lib/R, while packages built from scratch by root go into /usr/local/.., and if the user runs install.packages(), then it gets dumped into the user's own account.
I'm much more familiar with RedHat/Fedora systems, and they don't have that approach built in. I've not tried to install a package on an RPM based system as an ordinary user lately, but in the old days it failed because user's can't write in /usr/lib. I am certain the RPM based systems don't segregate packages installed from RPM and built by root with install.packages. Am I correct in my "detective work" that your package is making changes to the Renviron file to make this happen? Are there other changes as well? I'd like to do the same to an RPM setup. I found myself wondering if this setup should be suggested to the R distribution itself? pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
