[rkward-devel] RKward Crash while updating CRAN packages

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Friday 04 May 2012, Aaron Sheldon wrote:
> Sucks this is the first message I post to this list. I did want to float
> volunteering to write a plug-in/wizard for survival analysis. Oh well, here
> is the mostly unhelpful details:

thanks for the report. Bug reports are always helpful!

This particular bug has already been fixed in the development version. So you 
may want to consider giving that a try. See http://p.sf.net/rkward/svn . For 
Ubuntu, we also provide daily builds (https://launchpad.net/~rkward-
devel/+archive/rkward-dailys).

Note that the bug is not 100% reproducible. It will only occur for some 
certain numbers of updateable packages, and with a bit of bad luck. That's why 
we did not catch it in time.

Of course, as Meik has pointed out, running RKWard as root should not be 
necessary, even for installing packages to the system wide libraries. Running 
with root privileges is not advisable for general considerations, and - 
depending on the setup and usage of kdesu(do) - may leave configuration files 
non-writeable for the regular user.

Regards
Thomas
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