[R] R seems to mangle LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Ross Boylan]

I am trying to ensure that a directory is searched first, but it gets
stuck at the end of LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/install/lib

$ R

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
# banner omitted

> Sys.getenv(c("PATH", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"))

PATH

"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH
"/usr/lib64/R/lib:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server:/home/ross/install/lib"
> 


I've seen some reference to $R_HOME/etc/ldpaths but I don't have access
to system files, and I definitely don't want this visible to other
users.

I ran into this under Open MPI, but the previous example didn't use MPI
at all.

I'm picking up the wrong libraries; what do I need to do so that my
personal library is searched first?


Running Debian squeeze.

Thanks.
Ross Boylan