Dear Peter, On Sat, 23 May 2015 08:40:52 +0200 Peter van Summeren <peter_van_summe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to all who answered me, > After reading all the mails I got, I did the following:- I logged in as root > in Debian Jessie- I started Rcmdr. it told me that some files are missing, > it offered me to get them, I did not fill in anything, just said ok, I > had to choose a website from where to download, ok, it downloaded and it > worked quite a lot, in the end it said: the downloaded packages are in > /temp/Rtmp25kiWx/downloaded_packages,- Rcmdr came up neatly,- I changed to > normal user mode, Rcmdr came up neatly. > The reason I choose to log in as root, was that I was unsure what would > happen in the process.
As I said, I'm not a Debian user, but I don't believe that it was necessary for you to log in as root to install R packages. It's also unclear to me whether you *tried* doing this as an ordinary user -- that is, simply clicking OK in the dialog box that offered to install missing R packages and then selecting a CRAN mirror from which those packages would be downloaded. > As root I can maintain "rights".All my R-packages I downloaded as normal user > with a package commander. When some Debian developer reads the above: why was > the usual package commander not enough? That would require that Dirk package for Debian *all* the R packages used by the Rcmdr and their dependencies, which would be a lot of work -- unnecessary work since R packages can be installed directly from CRAN without being repackaged for Debian. Best, John ------------------------------------------------ John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > But I am glad I could reach this mailing list. > with friendly greetings,Peter > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
