Dear Pragya,
Did you first create the folder '.R/library' in your home? It sounds
weird that it is not writable... Next, if you log as root, it is likely
that '~' refers to the home of the root user. Thus, you might need to
explicitly give the complete name. But really, I wouldn't advise to
install packages *in your home* while logged as root: every file will be
owned by root...
Once you manage to use '~/.R/library' as a regular user, my advice is to
tell it in a .Renviron file (directly in '~/'), so that you don't need
to explicitly tell while installing packages.
### Packages in the home directory:
R_LIBS="~/.R/library:${R_LIBS}"
With this, R will try first in '~/.R/library', and next in the usual
folders if it didn't succeed.
Hope this helps,
Mathieu.
Le 30/10/2010 02:34, pragya agarwal a écrit :
Hi
I am trying to install R-igraph, but when I issue the command :
install.packages("igraph", lib="~/.R/library")
in the R session, I get the following error:
Warning in install.packages("igraph", lib = "~/.R/library") :
'lib = "~/.R/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages("igraph", lib = "~/.R/library") :
unable to install packages
I have tried the command by logging in as the root user, but that also
didn't work.
Can anyone please help me??
Thanks,
Pragya
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