[BioC] Installing Bioconductor with 'sudo' privilege
Steve Lianoglou
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Tue Sep 1 16:57:28 CEST 2009
Hi Sharon,
On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Sharon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am allowed to install programs thro' sudo on my LINUX server. I have
> installed R 2.9.0 and trying to install bioconductor. As expected,
> when I
> tried to install bioconductor inside R, it says 'lib =
> "/usr/lib64/R/library"' is not writable. This means, I have to
> download the
> source of each package and install using R CMD INSTALL. Is there any
> other
> elegant way of installing bioconductor with 'sudo' privilege?
Can you just sudo-launch R? That should give you the appropriate privs
to then install packages "in the normal way," no?
eg:
$ sudo R
## do password song and dance
## ... welcome to R ...
R> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
R> biocLite(c('some', 'packages'))
...
-steve
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