On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Werner Bier wrote: > Hi R-Help, > > I have just downloaded RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. > If I type > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz > > i get the following error message > > makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission > denied > ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifing
Does it really say that? 'makedir'? 'user'? I don't think so. > I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please. You don't have permission to install in that directory. Use an account that owns R and does, or install somewhere you do have permission. -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
