Hi Dan, On 9 July 2013 at 19:52, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: | Picking up a somewhat old thread...what is the final status of this?
In r-patched and r-devel, check the NEWS file. | It doesn't look like an option was added to control the permissions of | installed package files. | It also seems that the --group-writable option to R CMD INSTALL is not | present in R-3.0.1. | | So are we back to where we started? | | FWIW, I'd prefer a solution that respects the umask and is honored in | install.packages(), update.packages(), etc. In my use case users will We have something which is (in the eyes of all who played along here) better and simpler. Instead of passing an explicit option down (which has to cope with the different entry paths for this), the install function now checks for group-write mode of the target target directory. If present, the installation will use group-write too on file and its new directories. Easier, and quite elegant. Have a go and see if it fits your bill -- no umask fiddling, no teaching all users to change habits, no inotify. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
