[R] Preventing loading of user packages

[Ista Zahn]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm trying to prevent the loading of packages from the 'personal
> library'

Of behalf of the users you are about to cripple, please, do not do that!

-Ista

on an OS X machine. i.e. the packages that are normally
> placed somewhere like:
>
> ~/Library/R/3.0/library
>
> There is a file in the R.framwork directory:
>
> /Versions/3.0/Resources/etc/Renviron
>
> which contains a line:
>
> R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/Library/R/3.0/library'}
>
> but commenting this out does not prevent R from loading from that
> location.
>
> is there a way to prevent loading from that location?
>
> with thanks
>
> jonathon
>
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