[R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr

[Prasenjit Kapat]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:03 AM, tyler <tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've found the version of R in the Ubuntu repository is almost always
>> out of date. Here is the process I follow:
>>
>> 4) Start R from the command line as root so I can install packages
>> system-wide: sudo R
>
> As an alternative, if you set the permissions on
> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library to allow universal write access, you can
> call install.packages() from R without having root privileges:
>
> sudo chmod o+w /usr/local/lib/R/site-library

Is that a safe / secure? BTW what are the permissions on
/usr/local/lib/R? Mine's already set to 755 for the "user"!!! I though
it used to be owned by root!

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Prasenjit