[R] How to enforce location of installation of downloaded packages

[Frank Harrell]

Thanks Uwe.  Too bad there is no system option I can set one time, that will
always take precedence.

Frank



Uwe Ligges-3 wrote:
> 
> install.packages(...., lib='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library')
> 
> otherwise you have to ensure that this library is the first one in 
> .libPaths() and watch out that it is not changed by any of the many 
> mechanisms that allow for adding libraries to the search path.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> 
> On 09.03.2011 00:53, Frank Harrell wrote:
>> Using R on Linux I want to force downloaded packages to go into
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library.  I have an .Rprofile file in my home
>> directory containing the following:
>>
>> options(help_type='html', browser='chromium-browser',
>> repos='http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN',
>> lib='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library')
>>
>> But sometimes install.packages (with R run as superuser using sudo) will
>> create a directory called x86... under ~/R and put installed packages
>> there.
>> How do I force the system to always use /usr/local/lib/...?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Frank
>>
>>
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