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 Matlab you typically can just download the m files anywhere you like, and then add their location to the path. Not sure but I would suspect that getting a complete toolbox may require admin rights but for anything less you should be fine.
To conveniently add the location to your path automatically when you run matlab you can edit startup.m
Install Python / Matlab libraries without admin priviledges?