On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Paul Hewson wrote: > Thanks very much all, I'm still sure this is mac naivety on my part, but I'm > still curious how I've managed to foul up what seems like such a simple > procedure. > > > John's longer point - I'm going to check out removing and re-installing. I > had to enter a system password and checkbox that I wanted all users to be > able to use R. I can certainly use R GUI as myself so don't entirely > understand how I gave R gui different ownerships/permissions that R console. > > Regarding the other questions (my naive and presumably wrong thought was that > I need to put myself as a user in group admin, but I'm not sure that's > entirely correct). > > > John's question > R.home() gives > "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources" > Checking permissions gives > pm6-0068:~ phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework > total 40 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 18 Oct 11:16 Headers -> > Versions/Current/Headers > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 30 18 Oct 11:16 Libraries -> > Versions/Current/Resources/lib > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 31 18 Oct 11:16 PrivateHeaders -> > Versions/Current/PrivateHeaders > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 18 18 Oct 11:16 R -> Versions/Current/R > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 26 18 Oct 11:16 Resources -> > Versions/Current/Resources > drwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 170 18 Oct 21:22 Versions > > > Simon's question, yes typing R in the console gives me a the dialog box, but > the console does also gives me the following: > /usr/bin/R: line 259: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Permission denied > /usr/bin/R: line 259: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Undefined error: > (same for R vanilla) >
Are you running any anti-virus software or other haxxies? The thing is that R will not show any dialog box since it is a console tool, so the dialog box has to come from some other software that may be causing the issue in the first place ... > Davor's question yields: > phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin > total 10176 > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1828 22 Jun 20:16 BATCH > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2112 22 Jun 20:16 COMPILE > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 823 22 Jun 20:16 INSTALL > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1579 22 Jun 20:16 LINK > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 3 18 Oct 11:18 R -> R64 > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 8773 18 Oct 11:18 R32 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 8775 18 Oct 11:18 R64 > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 158 22 Jun 20:16 REMOVE > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1374 22 Jun 20:16 Rcmd > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 312 22 Jun 20:16 Rd2pdf > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 359 22 Jun 20:16 Rdconv > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 258 22 Jun 20:16 Rdiff > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 310 22 Jun 20:16 Rprof > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 37992 22 Jun 20:18 Rscript > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 155 22 Jun 20:16 SHLIB > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 318 22 Jun 20:16 Stangle > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 316 22 Jun 20:16 Sweave > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 41048 5 Nov 2011 arch > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 317 22 Jun 20:16 build > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 317 22 Jun 20:16 check > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 7486 22 Jun 20:16 config > drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 22 Jun 20:16 exec > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3600 22 Jun 20:16 f77_f2c > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2326336 22 Jun 20:18 fc-cache > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 13760 22 Jun 20:16 javareconf > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 274347 22 Jun 20:16 libtool > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3494 22 Jun 20:16 mkinstalldirs > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 413 22 Jun 20:16 pager > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2385276 22 Jun 20:18 qpdf > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 4121 22 Jun 20:16 rtags > > Best > paul > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Dr. Paul Hewson > Editor, Teaching Statistics (www.teachingstatistics.co.uk) > Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Statistics > School of Computing and Mathematics > University of Plymouth > Drake Circus > Plymouth PL4 8AA > > tel (01752) 586870 > fax (01752) 586900 > VoIP: sip:[email protected] > > email: [email protected] > web: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/phewson > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > ________________________________________ > From: Davor Cubranic [[email protected]] > Sent: 20 October 2012 03:40 > To: Paul Hewson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions > > On 12-10-19 02:28 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: >> As I say, I think I've tracked the symlink itself as well as the >> files it links to /usr/bin/R is itself a symlink to R64. All three >> users have an x when you do ls -l , they don't all have r and w. > > Can you show us the output of running: > ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin > > Davor > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
