[R] .Renviron for multiple hardwares...

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> 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?

%V is overkill. On some OSes %v is needed (Mac OS, WIndows) and on 
others you can get away without it. And %p includes %o and %a.  The 
default is on a Unix-alike

~/R/%p-library//%v

>
> --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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>>>> 
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>
> -- 
>
> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)
> University of California, Davis
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> The Barn, Room 250N
> Davis, CA 95616
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