[R] R minor version

[Henrik Bengtsson]

This can be controlled by environment variables R_LIBS, R_LIBS_SITE,
and R_LIBS_USER, which support "conversion specifiers".  See
help(".libPaths") or aliases help("R_LIBS") etc.  You can set these in
in any of the Renviron files (~/.Renviron, /path/to/R/etc/Renviron,
/path/to/R/etc/Renviron.site).

It sounds like you're trying to set up a site-wide package library to
be shared among users.  If so, add a line:

R_LIBS_SITE=/some/where/else/R/site-%p-library/%v

and make sure that folder exists, otherwise it's silently dropped from
.libPaths().

/Henrik


On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 8:42 AM, William Dunlap via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>> .expand_R_libs_env_var("poof/%p/%v")
> [1] "poof/x86_64-w64-mingw32/3.4"
>
>
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I install a package as a non-root user, it gets saved in a path
>> such as
>>
>>   ~/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.4
>>
>> for any R version 3.4.x.  Thus, if I want to install the packages
>> somewhere else, as root say, I might do
>>
>>   install.packages("somepackage","/some/where/else/R/site-library/3.4")
>>
>> In this case I would then want to construct the appropriate path in,
>> say, /etc/Rprofile to allow the packages to be found.
>>
>> However, using R.Version() gives me
>>
>>   > R.Version()$minor
>>   [1] "4.3"
>>
>> I can obviously extract the "real" minor version from the string, but
>> shouldn't there be a more straightforward way to obtain the part of the
>> version that is used in .libPaths() by default?
>>
>> Or am I misunderstanding something?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
>> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>>
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