[Rd] installing packages and libraries
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 21:47:52 CEST 2005
When I run the following:
cd \Rpkgs
rcmd install mypackage -l library
I get a message that it cannot find quadprog which is a library
that mypackage depends on.
Error: package 'quadprog' could not be loaded
I previously used C:\Program Files\R\rw2011\library as my library for CRAN
packages and did not have a problem but now that I use
C:\Program Files\R\library this problem has started.
I actually can get it to work by doing either of the following:
1. install quadprog into \Program Files\R\rw2011path\library
instead of in \Program Files\R\library, or
2. install mypackage into \Program Files\R\library via:
rcmd install mypackage -l c:\PROGRA~1\R\library
However, I can't seem to install mypackage into \Rpkgs\library
like I want due to the error I showed above.
I have \Program Files\R\rw2011pat\etc\Renviron.site set to my
library list (its contents are just the single line shown here):
R_LIBS=C:/PROGRA~1/R/library;C:/Rpkgs/library
and normally that works fine, e.g. when doing install.packages
to install a CRAN package, but I assume that it is not being
read by the installation program. I also tried setting R_LIBS, viz.
C:\Rpkgs>set R_LIBS
R_LIBS="C:\Program Files\R\library;C:\Rpkgs\library;C:\Program Files\R\rw2011pat
\library"
but that does not help. In fact, if I do that I get this message:
list.files: 'C:/Program Files/R/rw2011pat/library"' is not a readable directory
even though that directory is valid as I double checked it.
I have looked at ?Startup and the Admin Manual and the Writing Extensions
Manual and maybe the answer is there but I have not found it.
Anyone know how to get mypackage to install into \Rpkgs\library ?
Thanks.
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