Hi Ross,
Always good to see your diligent reports :)
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:55:41AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: r-base-core
> Version: 2.4.0-1
> Severity: minor
>
> > install.packages("adapt", lib="lib")
> as a regular user appears to mostly work, but there is this error message:
> Warning message:
> cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)
>
> I'm not sure what the significance is.
Personally, I just ignore it. As maintainer, I'd argue non-bug.
For argument's sake, I just chased it down. You need a
$ sudo chown you,yourgroup /usr/share/R/doc/html/packages.html
and you'll be fine.
That is not something I can deal with as maintainer as it is a
system-wide file...
So: Are you ok with me closing this one?
> If it's trying to update some master index and failing because it's
> not root, perhaps this is expected.
>
> I also noticed that
> > getOption("repos")
> yields
> CRAN
> "@CRAN@"
>
> This looks a bit as if the package isn't fully configured, though when
> I ran it I got a prompt to pick an archive. That seems like
> reasonable behavior.
Yup. IIRC the tcl/tk GUI comes up if the value is still "@CRAN@". I
tend to override it in ~/.Rprofile and go straight to my preferred
repos.
> I also tried install.packages("adapt") first, and ran into the
> permissions problem of #350657. It would be nice if there were some
> way to make this work, though I appreciate the advantages of upstream
> compatibility.
I just re-read that ranting thread. I still think it is a
chicken-and-egg issue. How should the Debain package know which of
the users in /etc/passwd (or worse, NIS or LDAP) are expected write
there.
I still think there is a reason it is called "local" in /usr/local ...
Cheers, Dirk
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40,
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
> ii atlas3-base [libblas.so.3] 3.6.0-20.2 Automatically Tuned Linear
> Algebra
> ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file
> co
> ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
> ii libgfortran1 4.1.1-13 Runtime library for GNU Fortran
> ap
> ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's
> JPEG
> ii libpaper-utils 1.1.20 Library for handling paper
> charact
> ii libpcre3 6.7-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular
> Expressi
> ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
> ii libreadline5 5.2-1 GNU readline and history
> libraries
> ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
> ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
> ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical
> Extraction
> ii refblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines
> 3
> ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1.1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language)
> v8
> ii tk8.4 8.4.12-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4
> -
> ii zlib-bin 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - sample
> progr
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
>
> Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
> ii r-base-dev 2.4.0-1 GNU R installation of auxiliary
> GN
> ii r-recommended 2.4.0-1 GNU R collection of recommended
> pa
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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