On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:03 AM, tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > Ista Zahn <[email protected]> writes: > >> I've found the version of R in the Ubuntu repository is almost always >> out of date. Here is the process I follow: >> >> 4) Start R from the command line as root so I can install packages >> system-wide: sudo R > > As an alternative, if you set the permissions on > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library to allow universal write access, you can > call install.packages() from R without having root privileges: > > sudo chmod o+w /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
Is that a safe / secure? BTW what are the permissions on /usr/local/lib/R? Mine's already set to 755 for the "user"!!! I though it used to be owned by root! -- Prasenjit _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
