From sethfalcon at gmail.com  Fri Sep  9 23:09:02 2005
From: sethfalcon at gmail.com (Seth Falcon)
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:09:02 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Install packages to non-default lib on Windows
References: <m2y867i6hm.fsf@macaroni.local> <4320C8BC.6020702@stats.uwo.ca>
	<43212E87.5030804@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Message-ID: <m2u0guc5jl.fsf@macaroni.local>

On  8 Sep 2005, ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:
>>> installing inst files installing data files installing man source
>>> files installing indices cannot create
>>> d:/biocbld/R-devel/doc/html/search/index.txt: permission denied
>
> I was also annoyed about this point a couple of times. But what are 
> possible solutions?
>
> - not updating indices at all?

No idea how difficult this would be but...  Perhaps there could be a
system and local help indices (defined by R_LIBS).  If a package is
installed in a local package library, I don't really see the point of
adding an entry in a global index.

> - provide a switch such as --no-indices for the R CMD tools?

Or perhaps making the failure to write into the index a warning and
not a fatal error?  Not updating the help index seems unfatal to me.

> short time workaround: simply give users write access to the few
> files that have to write to.

Yep.

Thanks,

+ seth



[Rd] Install packages to non-default lib on Windows
Seth Falcon