[Rd] install.packages with R 2.9.1 under Vista?
spencerg
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Tue Jun 30 16:10:10 CEST 2009
What do I need to do to get "install.packages" to work properly
for me in R 2.9.1 under Vista?
Currently, install.packages in Rgui 2.9.1 by default goes to
"C:\\Users\\sgraves\\Documents/R/win-library/2.9". This is a problem
for me, because R running under Emacs does not currently look there.
I made the mistake last night of first installing R 2.9.1 in the
default "C:\Program Files". When I found that packages I installed
using Rgui could not be found from within Emacs, I uninstalled R from
"C:\Program Files" and reinstalled it under "C:\Users\sgraves\R"
alongside R 2.9.0, which has allowed "install.packages" from Rgui to be
accessed from R under Emacs.
I've traced the problem to the different behavior of ".libPaths()":
*** Rgui:
.libPaths()
[1] "C:\\Users\\sgraves\\Documents/R/win-library/2.9"
[2] "C:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.9.1/library"
*** R under Emacs:
> .libPaths()
[1] "c:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.9.1/library"
What do you suggest?
Thanks,
Spencer
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