[R] Permissions after install of R 1.8.1.

[Rolf Turner]

I just encountered another mild funny in encounters with R 1.8.1.  I
did a make install (as root) of my newly built R 1.8.1.  When I tried
to test it I was told ``permission denied'' in respect of
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.bin.

I had a look, and the permissions on R.bin were indeed

-rwx------    1 root     other     7138492 Feb 10 16:52 R.bin*

Every ***other*** file in the directory, except for one, had permissions

		-rwxr-xr-x

as I would have expected (root's umask is 22).

The one other oddball file was libRlapack.so which had permissions
-rwx------ like unto R.bin.

I changed the permissions and everything seems to be working now ....
But ***why***?  (And again, why me?)

					cheers,

						Rolf Turner
						rolf at math.unb.ca