[R] tiny bug in R installation (redhat)

[Martyn Plummer]

On 01-Mar-00 Dan E. Kelley wrote:
> First, let me join the chorus of praise for R.  (Hey, isn't somebody going
> to analyse all these praise emails in some statistical way?)
> 
> I'm writing to point out an error in the file permissions in the
> linux/redhat version.  (I'm using R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, by the way.)
> 
> The permissions in /usr/lib/R/doc/html aren't correct, since
> 'function.html' and 'packages.html' are both only readible by the owner
> (who is the system user, named 'root'), and not by normal users.
> 
> Sure, I can fix this on my machine (and have, of course), but I thought it
> was worth pointing out so that somebody can tweak either the "spec"
> file that was used in generating the linux/redhat package, or
> perhaps the Makefile that I presume is being used by other R installers.

I don't have this problem:

[root at xena i386]# rpm -Uvh R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
R-base                      ##################################################
updating LibIndex for library  /usr/lib/R/library ...
updating HTML index ...
[root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root       177166 Mar  2 10:52
/usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html
[root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1481 Feb 29 12:34
/usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
[root at xena i386]# umask -S
u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx

These files are built by the post-install script.  My only guess is that
you have changed the umask for root so that newly created files are not
readable by other users.

Martyn
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