[R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Paul Hewson wrote:

> Thanks very much all, I'm still sure this is mac naivety on my part, but I'm still curious how I've managed to foul up what seems like such a simple procedure.
> 
> 
> John's longer point - I'm going to check out removing and re-installing.   I had to enter a system password and checkbox that I wanted all users to be able to use R.   I can certainly use R GUI as myself so don't entirely understand how I gave R gui different ownerships/permissions that R console.
> 
> Regarding the other questions (my naive and presumably wrong thought was that I need to put myself as a user in group admin, but I'm not sure that's entirely correct).
> 
> 
> John's question
> R.home() gives
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources"
> Checking permissions gives 
> pm6-0068:~ phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework
> total 40
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   24 18 Oct 11:16 Headers -> Versions/Current/Headers
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   30 18 Oct 11:16 Libraries -> Versions/Current/Resources/lib
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   31 18 Oct 11:16 PrivateHeaders -> Versions/Current/PrivateHeaders
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   18 18 Oct 11:16 R -> Versions/Current/R
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   26 18 Oct 11:16 Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  admin  170 18 Oct 21:22 Versions
> 
> 
> Simon's question, yes typing R in the console gives me a the dialog box, but the console does also gives me the following:
> /usr/bin/R: line 259: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Permission denied
> /usr/bin/R: line 259: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/x86_64/R: Undefined error: 
> (same for R vanilla)
> 

Are you running any anti-virus software or other haxxies? The thing is that R will not show any dialog box since it is a console tool, so the dialog box has to come from some other software that may be causing the issue in the first place ...


> Davor's question yields:
> phewson$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin
> total 10176
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     1828 22 Jun 20:16 BATCH
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     2112 22 Jun 20:16 COMPILE
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      823 22 Jun 20:16 INSTALL
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     1579 22 Jun 20:16 LINK
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        3 18 Oct 11:18 R -> R64
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     8773 18 Oct 11:18 R32
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  admin     8775 18 Oct 11:18 R64
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      158 22 Jun 20:16 REMOVE
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     1374 22 Jun 20:16 Rcmd
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      312 22 Jun 20:16 Rd2pdf
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      359 22 Jun 20:16 Rdconv
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      258 22 Jun 20:16 Rdiff
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      310 22 Jun 20:16 Rprof
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin    37992 22 Jun 20:18 Rscript
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      155 22 Jun 20:16 SHLIB
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      318 22 Jun 20:16 Stangle
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      316 22 Jun 20:16 Sweave
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin    41048  5 Nov  2011 arch
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      317 22 Jun 20:16 build
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      317 22 Jun 20:16 check
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     7486 22 Jun 20:16 config
> drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin      136 22 Jun 20:16 exec
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     3600 22 Jun 20:16 f77_f2c
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin  2326336 22 Jun 20:18 fc-cache
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin    13760 22 Jun 20:16 javareconf
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   274347 22 Jun 20:16 libtool
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     3494 22 Jun 20:16 mkinstalldirs
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin      413 22 Jun 20:16 pager
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin  2385276 22 Jun 20:18 qpdf
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin     4121 22 Jun 20:16 rtags
> 
> Best
> paul
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> From: Davor Cubranic [cubranic at stat.ubc.ca]
> Sent: 20 October 2012 03:40
> To: Paul Hewson
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions
> 
> On 12-10-19 02:28 PM, Paul Hewson wrote:
>> As I say, I think I've tracked the symlink itself as well as the
>> files it links to /usr/bin/R is itself a symlink to R64.    All three
>> users have an x when you do ls -l , they don't all have r and w.
> 
> Can you show us the output of running:
> ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin
> 
> Davor
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