[R-sig-Debian] setting R_LIBS

[Sebastian Luque]

Thanks for the quick reply!


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:54:50 -0600,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

[...]

> Do you write permissions where the default library index is written?  If not,
> did you use an appropriate option to destdir ?

> | 2) when doing library("package"), I get this:

> Is that a literal "package", are do you mean this as an example?  


Yes, just an example; it doesn't only occur with chron, but with every package
I've tried.  I didn't specify anything for destdir, as I've never had to in the
past (they always go to /tmp/).  My permissions in that library folder look ok
to me (drwxr-xr-x).  Here's the whole output for the attempt to install chron
(much shorter than with other packages):


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
R> install.packages("chron")
Warning in install.packages("chron") : argument 'lib' is missing: using ~/R/library
trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/chron_2.3-0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 27899 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 27Kb

* Installing *source* package 'chron' ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include     -fPIC  -g -O2 -c chron_strs.c -o chron_strs.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include     -fPIC  -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include     -fPIC  -g -O2 -c unpaste.c -o unpaste.o
gcc -shared  -o chron.so chron_strs.o init.o unpaste.o   -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading

** help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'chron'
     Formats: text html latex example 
  chron-internal                    text    html    latex
  chron                             text    html    latex   example
  cut.dates                         text    html    latex   example
  dates                             text    html    latex   example
  day.of.week                       text    html    latex   example
  days                              text    html    latex   example
  hours                             text    html    latex   example
  is.holiday                        text    html    latex   example
  seq.dates                         text    html    latex   example
** building package indices ...
* DONE (chron)

The downloaded packages are in
	/tmp/RtmpoLM72j/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


And yes, I've tried removing and retrying several times without success.  What's
weird is that running R as root and installing to the normal
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library works ok!


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Sebastian P. Luque