[R] Errors using update.packages()

[David Scott]

When trying to update packages after the sysadmin updated R on my unix box 
I got errors on some packages. For example for chron:

* DONE (chron)
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/R/library/00LOCK': Permission 
denied
ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifying

I got similar messages for spatial and cluster and warnings for other 
packages. Finally I got:

Warning messages:
1: number of rows of result
 	is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1) in: cbind(1, pkgs, lib)
2: number of rows of result
 	is not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: cbind(1, 
update[found, , drop = FALSE], file = files)
3: installation of package 'chron' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
4: installation of package 'VR' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
5: installation of package 'dse' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
6: installation of package 'mgcv' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
7: installation of package 'nlme' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
8: installation of package 'survival' had non-zero exit status in: 
install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
9: cannot create HTML package index in: 
tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)

>From Sys.info():
                              sysname                              release
                              "Linux"               "2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp"

>From the startup:
Version 2.2.1  (2005-12-20 r36812)

I don't have root privileges but am installing in my private library:
stat71/dscott10> echo $R_LIBS
/home/staff/dscott/Computing/R/Rprivatelib

Any suggestions?

David Scott



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 		The University of Auckland, PB 92019
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