[R] lib default location

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Sat May 21 23:30:55 CEST 2016


On 22/05/16 01:54, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> On 21.05.2016 14:49, Alba Pompeo wrote:
>> Everytime I install a package from CRAN I receive this message:
>>
>> Installing package into ‘/home/albap/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>>
>> Should I set my lib? If so, what's the recommended path?
>
> It is fine to keep this per user default.

Note that you can suppress the somewhat redundant message by specifying 
quiet=TRUE in the call to install.packages().

cheers,

Rolf Turner

Technical Editor ANZJS
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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