[R-sig-Debian] setting R_LIBS

[Sebastian Luque]

[resending this; first message had wrong header]


On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:03:16 -0600,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

[...]

> Sure, after all it's in the FAQ (Q5.2) and documented under help(Startup).
>
> I also use it at work on different system where 
>
> 	a) I may or may not have write permissions (Linux), or 
>
>	b) want to keep my package directory outside of the versioned R
>	   directory tree (Windoze).
>
> So thumbs up from me.  And under Debian, thanks to the useful expansion of
> R_LIBS from pre-defined values, you get your own as well as the systems
> directory in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib.  

Thanks Dirk.  Since as a normal user I don't have permissions to
/usr/local/, this seemed like a good idea.  Also, /home is in a separate
hard drive, so I thought this ~/.Renviron would help if the OS needs to be
reinstalled on the main hard drive.  But wanted to hear what other Debian
R users thought.


Cheers,

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque
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