[R] Problem in installing "quantreg" package

[Swagata Nandi]

Thanks, I could install it as superuser.

Swagata.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote:

> You probably do not have permission to write to that directory (and you
> need write permission to install a package).  I assume you are on Unix?
> Either ask your system administrator to install it for you or install it
> into a directory where you have permission.  For example, I make a
> subdirectory called "R-local" in my home directory for installing my own
> packages.  Look at ?Startup to see how you can get R to recognize your
> local package directory.
>
> -roger
>
> Swagata Nandi wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was trying to install "quantreg" package in an R session, but got the
> >following error message:
> >
> >ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/usr/lib/R/library'
> >
> >Can anyone suggest what I need to do?
> >
> >Swagata Nandi
> >
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