Hello T (short for TC, no doubt),
It appears to me that you're trying to run as a user in the /root/ directory. Move to a directory down from /home/ and I think you'll find it works. If my guess is incorrect, perhaps if you provide a long list of the working directory and we'll see what's going on with the permissions. HTH On Tue, 13-Sep-2011 at 09:55PM -0700, T wrote: |> |> 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. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.
