[R] Perl installation under SuSe

[Uwe Ligges]

Werner Bier wrote:

> Hi R-Help,
>  
> I have just downloaded  RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz under SuSe. 
> If I type 
>  
> owner at linux: ~work> R CMD INSTALL -c RSPerl_0.7-0.tar.gz
>  
> i get the following error message
>  
> makedir: cannot create directory '/user/lib/R/library/00LOCK' : Permission denied
> ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifing

I doubt one directory starts with "user" and the other one with "usr".
Do you have write permission to that directory?

If yes, is 00LOCK already there? Then remove it.
If no, install to a private library.

Uwe Ligges

> I would really appreciate if somebody can help me please.
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
>  
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