From nali at umn.edu  Fri Feb 13 20:24:19 2004
From: nali at umn.edu (Na Li)
Date: Fri Feb 13 20:24:45 2004
Subject: [Rd] Building r-devel on Panther
In-Reply-To: <x2smhe28ab.fsf@biostat.ku.dk> (Peter Dalgaard's message of "13
	Feb 2004 18:34:04 +0100")
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On 13 Feb 2004, Peter Dalgaard told this:

>  On Feb 13, 2004, at 8:43, Na Li wrote:
> >  
> >  bass$ /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
> >  Fatal error: unable to open the base package
> >  
>  
>  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R RHOME
>  
>  ? 
>  
>  and does that directory have library/base looking like a base package?
>  Are permissions etc. alright? 

Not exactly.

bass$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/1.9.0/Resources/library/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  admin  476 13 Feb 10:28 KernSmooth
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  admin  612 13 Feb 10:28 MASS
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  608 13 Feb 10:28 R.css
drwxr--r--  14 root  admin  476 13 Feb 10:28 base
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  admin  476 13 Feb 10:28 boot
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  admin  510 13 Feb 10:28 class
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  admin  510 13 Feb 10:28 cluster
drwxr--r--   4 root  admin  136 13 Feb 10:28 ctest
drwxr--r--   4 root  admin  136 13 Feb 10:28 eda
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  admin  476 13 Feb 10:28 foreign

It seems that the permissions for the base packages are wrong but ok for
the recommended packages.  Fixing the permissions does fix the problem.  
The question left is why the permissions are different?

Thanks for the help!

Michael


[Rd] Building r-devel on Panther
Na Li