[R] install error

[Sean O'Riordain]

Good morning Yuhong!

I've just done a rebuild of R-1.6.2 on my machine here using the 
following commands (from my history)...


    48  mkdir tmpR
    49  cd tmpR
    50  tar xzvf ../R-1.6.2.tgz
    51  pwd
    52  cd R-1.6.2/
    53  ./configure --prefix=/home/sean/software/R/tmpR
    54  make
    55  nice make check
    56  nice make install

it installed with no problem... creating the following directories...

[sean at sean4 R-1.6.2]$ pwd
/home/sean/software/R/tmpR/R-1.6.2
[sean at sean4 R-1.6.2]$ cd ..
[sean at sean4 tmpR]$ ll
total 16
drwxrwxr-x    2 sean     sean         4096 Feb  9 08:13 bin
drwxrwxr-x    3 sean     sean         4096 Feb  9 08:13 lib
drwxrwxr-x    3 sean     sean         4096 Feb  9 08:13 man
drwxr-xr-x   15 sean     sean         4096 Feb  9 07:56 R-1.6.2

where the last line is the build directory...

note that I have full permissions from my home directory /home/sean 
downwards.

could you be low on quota or disk space?

cheers,
Sean


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)?