Re: [Rd] symbolic linking to library files

2008-07-17 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I agree with the other poster's advice to just give guru permission to write to the R library folder. But the thing you want is the following. Create a directory somewhere that guru has write permission, for example ~guru/library (although I guess I would recommend somewhere else than guru's

Re: [Rd] symbolic linking to library files

2008-07-17 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
aster there? Just a thought Regards Latchezar > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of egc > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:17 PM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] symbolic linking to library files > > I han

[Rd] symbolic linking to library files

2008-07-17 Thread egc
I handle SysAdmin for a multi-user Linux box, with R 2.7.1 compiled and installed to make usee of ACML (Opteron chips). The library files (packages) are installed to /usr/local/lib64/R/library Everything works as it should, except for the following. Say I have a user (an R developer) who has devel