[R] install error

[Roger Peng]

If you just run the `configure' script without other arguments, it will
try to install in /usr/local, which you probably don't have permission to
write to.  

Just pick a directory that you have permission to write to and use the
--prefix argument to configure.  For example,

./configure --prefix=/home/rpeng/R

-roger
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Yuhong Guo wrote:

> 
> I just download R-1.6.2 source code for unix 
> to install. I am intalling it under redhat linux.
> 
> But after ./configure, when I try to make, 
> there always error showed: 
> 
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/BATCH': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/LINK': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rcmd': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rdiff': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rd2dvi': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rd2txt': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/config': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/pager': Operation 
> not permitted
> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/texi2dvi': 
> Operation not permitted
> 
> Does anyone know what is the problem? (Oh, I install it as a common user
> to linux, not as root)?
> 
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