Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-21 Thread Martin Henry H. Stevens
Agreed. Hank On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:40 AM, J Dougherty wrote: You want to take the sysad by the hairy of his chinny-chin-chin and explain the issue in short sentences. He or she ought to be able produce a solution without difficulty, and should not have any problems about doing so.

Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-21 Thread Thomas Lumley
administrator's problem. Either your site really has a policy that would prohibit R packages (in which case trying to subvert it may not be a good idea) or it is exactly the sort of problem that system administrators are supposed to solve. Distrust for R binary (and even source) packages

Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
would suggest making this the system administrator's problem. Either your site really has a policy that would prohibit R packages (in which case trying to subvert it may not be a good idea) or it is exactly the sort of problem that system administrators are supposed to solve. Distrust

[R] R and packages

2006-02-20 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: Here is yet another strange problem. I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer lab has something called Deep Freeze and the students cannot save anything to the hard drive. I had R installed and things were working well. They would save their .Rdata files to

Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/20/2006 8:07 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: Here is yet another strange problem. I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer lab has something called Deep Freeze and the students cannot save anything to the hard drive. I had R installed and things were

Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/20/2006 8:07 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: Here is yet another strange problem. I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer lab has something called Deep Freeze and the students cannot save anything to the hard drive. I had R installed and things were

Re: [R] R and packages

2006-02-20 Thread J Dougherty
You want to take the sysad by the hairy of his chinny-chin-chin and explain the issue in short sentences. He or she ought to be able produce a solution without difficulty, and should not have any problems about doing so. It IS their job. JD On Monday 20 February 2006 17:07, Erin Hodgess