Probably you have TMPDIR set in your enviroment to point to /home/mart/tmp and that does not exist or is not writable.
Solution: don't have variables pointing to inappropriate places? On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Martin Olivier wrote: > When I start R, it gives > > mkdir: Ne peut créer le répertoire `/home/mart/tmp/Rtmp11729'.: No such file or > directory > > > (I specify that my home path is /home/mart and the R version is 1.7.1) > > How I have to configure R to use the directory /tmp instead of > /home/mart/tmp ? > What is utility of this directory tmp for R? For temporary files, like all other Unix/Linux applications. See ?tempdir as well as internal uses (for HTML links, the editor temp file and so on). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html