[R] Unix-like permissions to allow a user to update recommen

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 18-Jun-2007 at 10:25PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:

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|> I'm still wondering, though, why you don't just run the command
|> update.packages() as root. You have root access, and you said (in
|> the "adding user to group" context) that only one user is involved
|> (presumably yourself?). In that case, why not start R as root and
|> run update.packages()?

That's probably slightly simpler than what I described.  I never think
of running R as root, so I never thought of that, but it's not as
elegant as I'd have imagined.

Since nobody has suggested a way of modifying the permissions to make
what I was thinking of possible, perhaps it really isn't.

Thanks for that suggestion.

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