[Rd] R_LIBS and R Cocoa GUI for Mac OS X (PR#7308)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

It stems from the following code in src/library/profile/Rprofile.unix

if(.Platform$GUI == "AQUA") {
...
    if( !file.exists("~/Library/R") )
        dir.create(path.expand("~/Library/R"))
    if( !file.exists("~/Library/R/library") )
        dir.create(path.expand("~/Library/R/library"))
    .libPaths(path.expand("~/Library/R/library"))
}## end "Aqua"

which looks quite intentional, and looks like it was done for 1.9.0.

I suggest this section is conditionalized on

if(!length(Sys.getenv("R_LIBS")) {  # note the simpler form!
}

since presumbably the intention is to have a local library tree for 
install.binaries() to use, and it is wrong to override the standard system 
setting via R_LIBS (which has in fact been ignored).

David: edit library/base/R/Rprofile if you want a quick fix on a binary 
installation.


On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 d.firth at warwick.ac.uk wrote:

> Full_Name: David Firth
> Version: 2.0.0
> OS: Mac OS 10.3.5
> Submission from: (NULL) (81.178.234.156)
> 
> 
> When running R in R Cocoa GUI 1.0 (v2004-10-14), I have
> 
> > Sys.getenv()[["R_LIBS"]]
> [1] "/Users/david/Library/R"
> > .libPaths()
> [1] "/Users/david/Library/R/library"                   
> [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"
> 
> The pasting of "/library" after "/Users/david/Library/R" is unexpected: I did
> not find it documented, and it does not happen when I run the same R version by
> other means, for example through Terminal.app.
> 
> Version info below.
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> > version
>          _                      
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
> arch     powerpc                
> os       darwin6.8              
> system   powerpc, darwin6.8     
> status                          
> major    2                      
> minor    0.0                    
> year     2004                   
> month    10                     
> day      04                     
> language R
> 
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