On 04/09/2009 3:42 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to do run R without having write permissions to any
directory on the system. It seems that I need to modify the R source
code for this, to make R start without creating a temporary directory.
So far, so good. But should I expect any more complications? Does R
really need the temporary directory that much?
Many R functions create temporary files in it. (There are around 20
calls to tempfile() and another 20 to tempdir() in the base R sources,
if my quick grep was right. I've no idea how many calls there are from
contributed packages.) Would R work if these all failed? I don't know,
but I'd guess it wouldn't work very well.
Duncan Murdoch
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