[R-SIG-Mac] RSwitch

[cstrato]

Dear Steve,

Thank you, using "sudo chmod -R o+w R.framework" did the trick.

Best regards
Christian


Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:26 PM, cstrato wrote:
>
>> Dear Simon,
>>
>> On my Mac (10.4.11) I have installed different versions of R and thus 
>> like RSwitch very much. However, in my case it works only when I am 
>> logged in as administrator.
>>
>> Since I am usually logged in as normal user I have to:
>> logout -> login as admin -> run RSwitch -> logout -> login as user
>>
>> I know this tool is unsupported but do you think there is a 
>> possibility for an update?
>
>
> You can *probably* get this behavior by changing the permissions on 
> your R.framework directory. By default, I think it's set to:
>
> drwxrwxr-x  9 root  admin  306 Jun 29 10:39 
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
>
> Since the RSwitch program monkeys around with which symlinks point to 
> what in that folder, you'll need admin rights to use it.
>
> I'm guessing that if you chown or chgrp that directory such that your 
> logged in user has the rights to change stuff in there, you can then 
> use the app as a non admin .. w/o an app update :-)
>
> HTH,
> -steve
>
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> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>
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