[R] Where is gdata?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
>> Your library may not be set to what you think it is.  Try issuing this
>> command to discover which libraries its using:
>
>> .libPaths()
> [1] "C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents/R/win-library/2.12"
> [2] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.0/library"
>
>
>> and read the help for that command.  Also try this:
>
>> library()
>
>> which will list each library and the packages in it.
>
> gdata is on;
> Packages in library 'C:\Users\satimiswin764\Documents/R/win-library/2.12':
>
> It is on user's library folder NOT on PROGRA library fold.
>

Try this:

lib.loc <- .libPaths()
for (lib in lib.loc) {
    dirs <- list.files(lib, pattern = paste("^", pkg, "$", sep = ""),
full.names = TRUE)
    paths <- c(paths, dirs[file.info(dirs)$isdir &
file.exists(file.path(dirs, "DESCRIPTION"))])
}
dirs
paths

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