[R] R_LIBS difficulty ?
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon Apr 11 02:50:09 CEST 2005
Hi, R people.
I'm shy reporting this, as a bug in this area sounds very unlikely. Did
I make my tests wrongly? I'm still flaky at all this. Let me dare
nevertheless, who knows, just in case... Please don't kill me! :-)
Not so long ago, I wrote to this list:
> (For now, [the library code] works only for me when I do _not_ use `-l
> MY/OWN/LIBDIR' at `R CMD INSTALL' time, I surely made a simple blunder
> somewhere. Hopefully, I'll figure it out.)
Now using this line within `~/.Renviron':
R_LIBS=/home/pinard/etc/R
my tiny package is correctly found by R. However, R does not seem to
see any library within that directory if I rather use either of:
R_LIBS=$HOME/etc/R
R_LIBS="$HOME/etc/R"
The last writing (I mean, something similar) is suggested somewhere in
the R manuals (but I do not have the manual with me right now to give
the exact reference, I'm in another town).
Another hint that it could be expected to work is that the same
`~/.Renviron' once contained the line:
R_BROWSER=$HOME/bin/links
which apparently worked as expected. (This `links' script launches the
real program with `-g' appended whenever `DISPLAY' is defined.)
This is R 2.0.1, installed on SuSE 9.2.
--
François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
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