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

[Marius Hofert]

*thanks* a lot, it now works!

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-10-11, at 16:48 , Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Marius Hofert 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
>> ...
>> 
> 
> I should have said "run as root" or simply sudo chown ...
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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