Thanks, I just found a similar solution using the getBioC(destdir="/blah") and it seems to be working. I assume that setting the R_LIB environment variable will let everyone see this new library. On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote: > > Dear Bioconductor Gods, > > I'm getting a write access error to /usr/lib/R/library. > > Is there some way to override the library location so I don't have get > > root access on our server to install bioconductor? > > While I personally haven't had any sort of apotheosis, I can say that I > answered essentially the same question yesterday on this list: > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2004-June/00489 4.html > > -J > -- -Robert