[R] Package installation for 4.1 on windows.

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Jun 7 17:49:05 CEST 2021


On 07/06/2021 10:37 a.m., Witold E Wolski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed R 4.1 and now trying to update install some packages.
> 
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18) -- "Camp Pontanezen"
> Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> 
> But when installing packages I read:
> 
> Installing packages into ‘C:/Users/wolski/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
> 
> Should not be a win-library/4.1. package directory be used by default?
>

I suspect something in your local setup specifies that directory.  The 
usual place to install is the directory where R was installed; it only 
switches to the user home directory if that fails, or the user requests it.

Duncan Murdoch



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