The company I work for used R Studio Server to have shared libraries and when we upgraded from 3.6 to 4.0 some of the library permissions seem to be messed up. There are 2 main problems .
- I can no longer install packages at '/usr/lib/R/site-library' when I try I get it's not writable.
- RStudio removed the site library install package UI despite it still being in .libPaths()
We need to be able to have a common library location all users can add packages too since we are a small group.
Can't write to site library code example
install.packages("dplyr", "/usr/lib/R/site-library")
# Error in install.packages : unable to install packages
.libPath return
.libPaths()
"/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"
"/usr/lib/R/library"