Hi Rodney, Thanks for the explanation. I guess that Sarah's but not Mark's file-permission problems were all at the first level of usr/local/.
Best, John > -----Original Message----- > From: Rodney Sparapani [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:43 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Hebblewhite, Mark'; [email protected]; Simon Urbanek > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] similar problems installing Rcmdr with R. > > On 09/24/2013 01:34 PM, John Fox wrote: > > 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 > > Hi John: > > That makes sense. sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/* does not descend into > the subdirectories. To make that work, you need > sudo chmod -R a+rx /usr/local > > -- > Rodney Sparapani, PhD > Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations > Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) > Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneysparapani _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
