[BioC] permission issue

Robert Baertsch baertsch at soe.ucsc.edu
Fri Jun 4 22:45:41 CEST 2004


Thanks, I just found a similar solution using the getBioC(destdir="/blah") 
and it seems to be working. I assume that setting the R_LIB 
environment variable will let everyone see this new library. 

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> > Dear Bioconductor Gods,
> > I'm getting a write access error to /usr/lib/R/library.
> > Is there some way to override the library location so I don't have get 
> > root access on our server to install bioconductor? 
> 
> While I personally haven't had any sort of apotheosis, I can say that I
> answered essentially the same question yesterday on this list:
> 
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2004-June/004894.html
> 
> -J
> 

-- 
-Robert



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