[R] Libraries issue

[Ben Ward]

Hi,

Got it fixed now, thanks everyone, still confused as to why it's never 
done that before, but at least it's fine now.

Ben W.

On 19/03/2011 19:38, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, peter dalgaard<pdalgd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mar 19, 2011, at 17:37 , Ben Ward wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I've just discovered R keeps installing my packages into
>>> C:\Users\Ben instead of "C:\\Users\\Ben;/R/win-library/2.12" which is
>>> what is returned by running Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER").
>>>
>> Er, I'm rusty on Windows, but that's what it is supposed to do, isn't it? It's a path with two semicolon separated directories.
> Unless explicitly requested to be so, most likely it is indeed meant
> to be without the semicolon, i.e. "C:\\Users\\Ben/R/win-library/2.12"
> (or "normalized" "C:\\Users\\Ben\R\win-library\2.12", but that doesn't
> matter here).  This is in line with what is said in help(".libPaths"):
>
> "By default R_LIBS is unset, and R_LIBS_USER is set to subdirectory
> ‘R/win-library/x.y’ of the home directory, for R x.y.z."
>
> Here are my Windows environment variables:
>
>> Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER")
>                         R_LIBS_USER
> "C:\\Users\\hb/R/win-library/2.12"
>
>> Sys.getenv("HOME")
>             HOME
> "C:\\Users\\hb"
>
> There should certainly not be any semicolons in the latter.  If you
> set HOME to "C:\\Users\\hb;" before starting R, you do get:
>
>> Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER")
>                          R_LIBS_USER
> "C:\\Users\\hb;/R/win-library/2.12"
>
>
> My $.02
>
> /henrik
>
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