Thanks for the good suggestions!
This is how I solved it (with lots of internet help):
Create a tempdir. Do a chmod 777 on it.
Within R
> Sys.setenv(TMPDIR="/home/erin/tempdir")
> install.packages("Cairo",depen=TRUE)
and all was well.
Thanks,
Erin
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:24 PM, <coll...@pitt.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> >
> >> I'm on a Centos 5 Red Hat system and I'm trying to install such packages
> >> as
> >> Cairo, Rserve, etc.
> >> However, I keep getting an error: sh:/bin/sh bad interpreter.
>
> Erin, just to add to what Rich wrote, this may be a disk related result as
> well. I get this error occasionally on my posix systems. Assuming that
> you are using install.packages I would check the disk permissions for the
> files and for the disk they reside on. If, for example, you are
> installing them on a disk partition that does not have the executable flag
> set in fstab you may get this error because the system is unwilling to run
> code resident on those partitions.
>
> Collin.
>
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