Hi folks,

 

I'm having a spot of bother with tempdir().  If I set the environment
variable TMPDIR in my shell prior to invoking R it works as expected:

 

> Sys.getenv("TMPDIR")

              TMPDIR 

"/eurotempest/tmp/R" 

> tempdir()

[1] "/eurotempest/tmp/R/Rtmp0xY4XD"

 

However if I don't set it prior to entry, but attempt to set it from
within the current session, the change is not detected/respected:

 

> Sys.getenv("TMPDIR")

TMPDIR 

    "" 

> Sys.putenv(TMPDIR = "/eurotempest/tmp/R/")

> Sys.getenv("TMPDIR")

               TMPDIR 

"/eurotempest/tmp/R/" 

> tempdir()

[1] "/tmp/Rtmp9chsNX"

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers, Ben

 

> R.Version()

$platform

[1] "i686-redhat-linux-gnu"

$arch

[1] "i686"

$os

[1] "linux-gnu"

$system

[1] "i686, linux-gnu"

$status

[1] ""

$major

[1] "2"

$minor

[1] "3.0"

$year

[1] "2006"

$month

[1] "04"

$day

[1] "24"

$`svn rev`

[1] "37909"

$language

[1] "R"

$version.string

[1] "Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)"

 

 

 

 


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