Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 June 2013 at 16:56, Simon Urbanek wrote: | On Jun 14, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > But up until right now I could not update a package a colleague installed, | > and vice versa -- unless we sudo. | > | | But you should be able to simply removing it, and re-installing, r

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jun 14, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 14 June 2013 at 16:17, Simon Urbanek wrote: > | I think it would be better to have a bit more sane handling of this. The > decision is rarely at the install time of the package -- e.g. did you adjust > the flag for INSTALL in update.p

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 June 2013 at 16:17, Simon Urbanek wrote: | I think it would be better to have a bit more sane handling of this. The decision is rarely at the install time of the package -- e.g. did you adjust the flag for INSTALL in update.packages based on the permissions? Otherwise it fails the next ti

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jun 14, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Martin Maechler >>on Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:44:57 +0200 writes: > >> Dirk Eddelbuettel >>on Sat, 8 Jun 2013 11:22:56 -0500 writes: > >>> Summary: > >>> The directory /usr/local/lib/R/site-library can be used >>> for s

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-14 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:44:57 +0200 writes: > Dirk Eddelbuettel > on Sat, 8 Jun 2013 11:22:56 -0500 writes: >> Summary: >> The directory /usr/local/lib/R/site-library can be used >> for site-wide multi-user installations of R. >> This