Hi,

Thank you very much for all your suggestions.  I have created an user
account and installed R & biocondutor locally for that user.

Thanks again,
Sharon

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Sean Davis <seandavi@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber@embl.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Sharon
>>
>> don't use root privileges to install R and its package, but rather, create
>> a dedicated user account and group for that, and make yourself member of
>> that group.
>>
>> There is no advantage in using the root account for installing R, and some
>> potential security and system safety risks.
>>
>>
> Hi, again, Sharon.  Just to be clear, what Wolfgang describes here is "best
> practice" and better than what I and others describe using "sudo" to start
> R.
>
> Sean
>
>
>> Sharon ha scritto:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Sharon
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>>
>> Best wishes
>>     Wolfgang
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