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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Thanks Uwe.  Too bad there is no system option I can set one time, that will
> always take precedence.
>

You could use the Defaults package to change the default value of the
lib argument of install.packages.  That is put this in your .Rprofile
file:

   library(Defaults)
   setDefaults(install.packages, lib = "...whatever...")

Now you can issue commands like this and the packages in question will
go into ...whatever... regardless of various settings:

   install.packages("Hmisc")

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