A problem I frequently run into when using Python, R, Matlab etc. is installing packages or libraries when I don't have admin privileges on the server I'm using. I was wondering if there is a way to get around this?
I was thinking of "installing" the libraries somewhere in my own account, and adding that directory to my path, rather than somewhere like /usr/bin, /usr/lib etc. Does anyone have any tips / pointers on this? This must be a frequent problem for college / graduate students.
Thanks!
In python you can do python setup.py install --user or pip install --user foo.  This will install it in a user-specific directory appropriate for your platform.
Install Python / Matlab libraries without admin priviledges?