Dear Mark, > -----Original Message----- > From: Hebblewhite, Mark [mailto:mark.hebblewh...@umontana.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:32 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] similar problems installing Rcmdr with R. > > Yes, the solution proposed by Rodney Sparapani below worked to fix my > problem, but was a slightly different command than proposed to Sarah > earlier. > > > Thanks very much Rodney! It will be challenging to fix this problem, > however, for other 'naïve' users of MAC if the solution is different > each > time. >
Just to be clear: sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/* didn't work, but sudo zsh chmod -R 755 /usr/local did work? Frankly, I don't get that, since the first command should insure that everyone has (at least) read and execute permission (i.e., level 5). I think that I'll add a trouble-shooting section to the Rcmdr Mac installation notes, but I would like to understand why one approach worked here and not the other. Best, John > Thanks very much John, Simon and Rodney! > > On 09/24/2013 07:45 AM, Hebblewhite, Mark wrote: > >7. From previous posts on this list serve > >[http://grokbase.com/t/r/r-sig-mac/138nv3tj17/unable-to-load-rcmdr- > with-r- > >3 > >-0-1-on-a-mac-os-x-10-8-3] I followed this set of instructions to see > >whether there were problems with my permissions: > > > >>>system("ls -ld /usr/local /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libtcl*") > >ls: /usr/local/lib: Permission denied > >ls: /usr/local/lib/libtcl*: Permission denied > >drwx------ 8 root wheel 272 Sep 24 10:21 /usr/local > > > > > >8. But in my disk utilities I can see no clear disk permissions > related to > >R. I ran repair disk permissions earlier today and there was 1 R > problem > >but that¹s been apparently fixed. > > Hi Mark: > > I am assuming you came to Mac from Windows, rather than UNIX/Linux, > right? On Mac OS X (and UNIX/Linux in general), you need to have > permission to read/write/execute files. But, I think you can fix > this rather easily. In a terminal... > % sudo zsh > # chmod -R 755 /usr/local > > > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac