Re: [R-SIG-Mac] CRAN installer for macOS - directory permissions

2022-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/06/2022 1:43 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: That would be a disaster. The computer sysadmin's whims should not override my userland analysis setup. This is not so hard to understand that even a beginner won't "get" it if you just remind them that their user library is the primary place to l

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] CRAN installer for macOS - directory permissions

2022-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/06/2022 1:45 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi Duncan, thank you for the follow-up. You didn't address the issue of having different versions of a package installed in the system library versus the personal library, an issue that causes lots of confusion for unsophisticated users. I thin

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] CRAN installer for macOS - directory permissions

2022-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Hi Henrik. You didn't address the issue of having different versions of a package installed in the system library versus the personal library, an issue that causes lots of confusion for unsophisticated users. A possible solution for this is for R by default to refuse to install a package in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [External] Xquartz started crashing today

2022-06-03 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
cover letter for crash report, that also got stopped for being part of a too large email, I am doing nothing different that I know of. I start R within emacs using ESS with M-x R R version 4.2.0 Patched (2022-06-02 r82444) -- "Vigorous Calisthenics" Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Stat