On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Sharon <sharonanandhi@gmail.com> 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?
>
>
Run R as "sudo" and then do the normal bioconductor install procedure.
Alternatively, you can chmod or chown that directory recursively to be
writable by you as a normal user.  Finally, if the directory is not
writable, you can install into your own home directory--R will give you that
option.  The latter is the default behavior.

Sean

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