[R] Making a private library on UNIX

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, J. Wan wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am having trouble making a private library on UNIX.  I have made a
> personal directory system which contains the R packages but I cannot get R
> to recognize this path/directory as a library.  When I type in :
>
> > library()
>
> only the public library appears.

Set .lib.loc correctly, most easily by

R_LIBS=/path/to/my/directory

in your .Renviron file, but also by

.lib.loc <- c("/path/to/my/directory", .Library)

in an R session.

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