Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-02-16 Thread Thompson, Pete
Wonderful ( - thanks! Cheers Pete On 16/02/2018, 16:29, "Tomas Kalibera" wrote: Bug 17159 has been fixed (in R-devel), but there may be more issues left with UNC paths. Tomas On 01/17/2018 01:37 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I share your experience with try

Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-02-16 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Bug 17159 has been fixed (in R-devel), but there may be more issues left with UNC paths. Tomas On 01/17/2018 01:37 PM, Joris Meys wrote: Hi Peter, I share your experience with trying to help IT departments setting things up. The network directory of the students is mapped to a drive, but R sti

Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-01-17 Thread Joris Meys
Hi Peter, I share your experience with trying to help IT departments setting things up. The network directory of the students is mapped to a drive, but R still uses the unc path instead of the drive when attempting to create that user library. Unless I do it manually of course. The only solution I

Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
I can easily believe that. It was maily for Joris, that it might not be necessary to reinstall. -pd > On 17 Jan 2018, at 11:55 , Thompson, Pete wrote: > > That solution works fine for the use case where each user has a network based > home directory and needs to run R from there, but doesn’t

Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-01-17 Thread Thompson, Pete
That solution works fine for the use case where each user has a network based home directory and needs to run R from there, but doesn’t help with my situation. I need to be able to support arbitrary network based paths in arbitrary numbers – so mapping drives isn’t an option. I have found a wor

Re: [Rd] [R-win] Bug 17159 - recursive dir.create() fails on windows shares due to permissions (MMaechler: Resending to R-windows@R-pr..)

2018-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
I usually draw a complete blank if I try to assist our IT department with such issues (we really need better documentation than the Admin manual for large-system installs by non-experts in R). However, it is my impression that there are also options involving environment variables and LFS nam