[BioC] Help with installing genefilter -- "installed directory not writable"

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kee Pang SOH <soh.kee.pang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am a student and I am currently learning about microarray analysis.  I
> tried to install genefilter package on my Ubuntu OS, but run into the
> following problem.
>
> Input:
>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>> biocLite("genefilter")
>
> Error message:
> The downloaded source packages are in
>     ‘/tmp/RtmpUU7GsP/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'boot', 'cluster',
> 'mgcv', 'spatial'
>
>

This is just a warning message. It means that these packages were
previously installed (probably by an administrator) in a directory you
don't have permission to write to. Seems like genefilter installed
successfully.

Dan


> I have tried to google for this error message, but I wasn't able to find
> anything useful. Would appreciate if someone could advise me on how to rectify
> this issue.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Yours faithfully
> Kee Pang
>
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