Hi,

I used to be able to install Bioconductor packages from a script *without*
having administrator rights (e.g., on Windows) by specifying the library
location to where the packages are to be installed.

However, with the new R (2.14.0) and Bioconductor releases, the command



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



would fail without administrator rights, because it tries to install
packages to directories that require administrator rights.

I checked the file biocLite.R and located the line where this problematic
install happens (install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos=a["BioCsoft",
"URL"]))


Is there a safe way to avoid the requirement for administrator rights? I
know that I could modify the above command and add a library location
argument, but is that safe?

In particular I am wondering why the r-script was modified to require the
administrator right?

Thanks,
Firas.

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