Thank you all very much for your swift and useful replies! I know of few software packages where the user support is so good..
I now resolved my problems, there turned out to be two distinct ones. For anybody who might have a similar problem in the future, here are the solutions that worked for me: 1. I needed to set the --prefix .configure variable; this indeed performs the substitution in the INSTALL.in script that I meant. Now I have a clean install in my home directory by setting --prefix=<my home dir>. The R executable ends up in lib/R/bin and also in bin/. 2. Foreign and other packages were not installing because I had no execute rights to /tmp. The error I got was "./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied". This was resolved by adding the line TMPDIR = '$HOME/tmp' to the file $R_HOME/etc/Renviron. Now everything works! Thanks R-Help, Daniel On Jan 3, 2008 8:45 PM, Patrick Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02-Jan-2008 at 10:08PM +0100, Daniel Oberski wrote: > > |> Dear all, > |> > |> > |> I am trying to install R on a (Linux Debian) machine where I do not > |> have root access. So far I succeeded in compiling from source and > |> running R. > |> > |> But I would really like to be able to use "make install" and to be > |> able to install certain packages such as foreign. Now these actions > |> require permissions for directories that I do not have. > |> > |> In particular I would like R home to be ~/bin/R, the libraries to > |> reside in ~/lib, and so on. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.