From tlumley@u.washington.edu  Fri Mar 15 16:31:35 2002
From: tlumley@u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:31:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] File permissions test during R CMD check
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0203150758090.18980-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0203150828500.25112-100000@homer14.u.washington.edu>

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

>
> I don't see this.  We do not insist that R itself is installed as
> world-readable, and I don't see why we should be doing so for packages.
> Further, it would be convenient to have installed packages
> group-writeable, as then anyone in the group can run update.packages().
>

Yes --  and many people would argue that it is positively undesirable for
update.packages() to be run as root even if only one person were to run
it.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley@u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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[Rd] File permissions test during R CMD check
Thomas Lumley