Current systems OS: RedHat SE Linux 5.7, fully patched R: R-2.13.1
I am a new R user. The R installation needs to be very tight because I plan to use it after I am employed on Internet facing systems to analyse firewall and filesystem log data. Everything to my knowledge regarding R installed correctly. I saw no warnings until saving THE WORKSPACE. NON-ROOT OUTPUT CURRENTLY YIELDS THE FOLLOWING ERROR > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y Warning message: problem in saving the history file '.Rhistory' [Object@localhost R]$ The sitrep... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INITIAL NON-ROOT OUTPUT WAS THE FOLLOWING > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open compressed file '.RDataTmp', probable reason 'Permission denied' > > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n Warning message: In file.remove(outfile) : cannot remove file '.RDataTmp', reason 'No such file or directory' INITIAL ROOT WAS THE FOLLOWING: > > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y [root@localhost ~]# Here is what I did, which I thought would fix everything: [root@localhost ~]# groupadd -g 666 r_users [root@localhost ~]# usermod --groups r_users Object [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/group | grep r_users r_users:x:666:Object [root@localhost ~]# chown -R root:r_users /var/R/R-2.13.1 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# find /var/R/R-2.13.1 -type d | xargs chmod g+rwx Note that I have gREpped for the .RDataTmp file and any variation between "R[Dd]ata" and I see nothing being written but the warnings have stopped...so maybe I am not generating anything to save the workspace. Now, when using a non-root account I have an issue with the .Rhistory file in that I have the following warnings. ROOT NOW YIELDS THE FOLLOWING: > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y [root@localhost ~]# NON-ROOT OUTPUT NOW YIELDS ANOTHER ERROR > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y Warning message: problem in saving the history file '.Rhistory' [Object@localhost R]$ [Object@localhost R]$ ls -al /var/R/ total 21604 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 9 19:02 . drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Sep 9 18:57 .. drwxrwxr-x 15 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:05 R-2.13.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22063747 Sep 9 18:58 R-2.13.1.tar.gz [Object@localhost R]$ ls -al /var/R/R-2.13.1 total 3772 drwxrwxr-x 15 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:05 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 9 19:02 .. drwxrwxr-x 3 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:05 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 0 Mar 17 2010 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 356442 Sep 9 19:04 config.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 9277 Mar 29 17:02 config.site -rwxr-xr-x 1 root r_users 110293 Sep 9 19:03 config.status -rwxr-xr-x 1 root r_users 1350078 Jun 30 17:05 configure -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 83993 May 30 17:05 configure.ac -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 18011 Mar 17 2010 COPYING drwxrwxr-x 4 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:06 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:03 etc drwxrwxr-x 3 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 19:03 include -rw-r--r-- 1 root r_users 1747 Mar 17 2010 INSTALL drwxrwxr-x 3 root r_users 4096 Sep 9 22:29 lib ... ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
