Thank you Joshua and Allan,
I tried it now, and indeed it works.

It remember for some reason that it didn't work for windows XP, was I wrong,
or did something change ?

Thanks again to the two of you.

Best,
Tal




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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych@gmail.com>wrote:

> Does Sys.getenv("R_LIBS") show the path?  My guess is that it has to
> do with this little part from ?.libPaths "Only directories which exist
> at the time will be included."  Try entering the path you specified
> into R; when I do, I get an error that says Error: '\P' is an
> unrecognized escape in character string starting suggesting that it is
> your use of backslashes in the path name leading to R not recognizing
> the directory and .libPaths() ignoring it.
>
> I would try:
>
> R_LIBS="C:/Program Files (x86)/R/library"
>
> I also find setting environment variables in Windows to certain
> directories makes my life much easier.
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I added the following line on the "Renviron.site" file:
> > R_LIBS=C:\Program Files (x86)\R\library
> >
> > And when I start R and run:
> > .libPaths()
> >
> > I don't see this path.
> >
> > On windows XP it worked for me.  I am now using windoes 7 (64 bit) with R
> > 32.
> > Is there a reason this shouldn't work?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tal
> >
> >
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