[BioC] unable to install biocLite or BiocInstaller

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> my conjecture is that this is a privileges mismatch ... to change packages
> in that installation you'll have to involve (or become) an administrator

Or one could set an R_LIBS_USER environment variable to point to a
directory writable by the user, and install the new stuff directly
there.

The OP would need to be careful to ensure that a complete installation
of all new packages are then (re)-installed into the R_LIBS_USER
directory so you don't get any weirdness from loading mismatched
versions of packages.

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Genentech