hello sharon,
       I'm on Ubuntu 9 and to install any package in R (including
Bioconductor) -
~$ sudo R
 Then when you give the command for BioC installation -

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

biocLite(lib="/usr/lib64/R/library")

This time the error won't be thrown that the "dir" is not writable. Starting
R with *sudo* but not giving the lib location downstream will install the
packages but in the users home dir. and not on "/usr/lib..."
This worked for me. Should do in your case also.

regards,
amit mandal
Graduate student
Genomics & Molecular Medicine lab
IGIB, Delhi

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:59 PM, 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?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sharon
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