[R-SIG-Mac] Multiple R versions: set Current via symbolic link: permissions?

[Martin Ellis]

You'll need to run the chown command using sudo, if the files are owned by root.

Martin

On 11 October 2011 15:46, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> You permissions are odd - this is not what installed R looks like, you should see
>>
>> ginaz:Versions$ ls -l
>> total 8
>> drwxrwxr-x  6 root  admin  204 Mar 26  2010 2.12
>> drwxrwxr-x  6 root  admin  204 Jul 12 15:44 2.13
>> drwxrwxr-x  6 root  admin  204 Oct  2 11:01 2.14
>> drwxrwxr-x  6 root  admin  204 Oct  3 12:05 2.15
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    4 Oct  3 12:05 Current -> 2.15
>>
>> so run
>> chown -Rh root:admin  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
>> followed by
>>
>> to fix that.
>
> followed by what? With "chown -Rh root:admin /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/" I get a lot of output of the form:
> ...
> chown: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework//library/Rcpp/unitTests/runit.Module.client.package.R: Operation not permitted
> ...
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>
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