[R] .Renviron for multiple hardwares...

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Ah, perfect -- so would the "ideal" R_LIBS_USER setting (to more or less 
guarantee the libraries will work on every possible computer) be 
something along the lines of:

~/myRlibraries/%V%p%o%a

Or is this overkill?

--j

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> The script .Rprofile evaluates R code on startup.  You could use that
>> to test for various environment variables.  Alternatively, use Unix
>> shell scripts to set system environment variables to be used in a
>> generic .Renviron.  See help(Startup) for more details.
>
> Well, not just 'Unix shell scripts', just R_ENVIRON_USER apppriately 
> (on any OS).
>
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Greenberg
>> <greenberg at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>> Our lab has a lot of different unix boxes, with different hardware, 
>>> and I'm
>>> assuming (perhaps wrongly) that by setting a per-user package 
>>> installation
>>> directory, the packages will only work on one type of hardware.  Our 
>>> systems
>>> are all set up to share the same home directory (and, thus, the same
>>> .Renviron file) -- so, is there a way to set, in the .Renviron file,
>>> per-computer or per-hardware settings?  The idea is to have a different
>>> package installation directory for each computer (e.g.
>>> "~/R/computer1/packages" and "~/R/computer2/packages".
>
> Well, we anticipated that and the default personal directory is
> set by R_LIBS_USER, and that has a platform-specific default.  See 
> ?.libPaths.
>
> None of this is uncommon: my dept home file system is shared by x86_64 
> Linux, i386 Linus, x86_64 Solaris, Sparc Solaris, Mac OS X and 
> Windows.  I just let install.packages() create a personal library for 
> me on each one I use it on.
>
>>> Thoughts?  Ideas?  Thanks!
>>>
>>> --j
>>>
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