[R] How to set up your library location for multiple users

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Dave,

Not sure what .lib.loc() is supposed to do, but you might want to look 
at section 6.2 of the R Installation and Administration manual, which 
covers library path issues.

Best,

Jim



Dave Jacoby wrote:
> I'm running R 2.5.0 (with the upgrade to 2.6.0 scheduled) on a and
> trying to write a few applications that will be run as myself, as my
> boss and as the web server, on one of many Solaris x86 servers.
> 
> I'd like to have my library sharable, and I thought I had found the way
> by putting this line early in my R scripts:
> 
> .lib.loc="/home/jacoby/My_R_Lib/"
> 
> But I tried that with my permissions and got this error:
> 
> Computing affinities[1] "Checking to see if your internet connection
> works..."
> Error in getCDF(cdfpackagename) : You do not have write access to
> /usr/local/R-2.5.0/lib/R/library
> Please check your permissions or provide a different 'lib' parameter.
> Execution halted
> 
> Any pointers?
> 

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