On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:34 PM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mark, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hebblewhite, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:32 PM >> To: John Fox >> Cc: [email protected] >> 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? >
The later is bad, do NOT use it! It will set exec permissions on *everything* even files are are not supposed to be executable. You probably want sudo chmod -R a+rX /usr/local Cheers, Simon > 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 [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
