[R-sig-Debian] Doc suggestion, was Re: Can I install debs over packages installed via R?

[Michael Dewey]

At 17:26 30/01/2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:



A lot of useful things and then

>3)  This means
>
>       /usr/local/lib/R/site-library     is first and hence the default, so
>                                         both 'R CMD INSTALL foo_1.2-3.tar.gz'
>                                         and install.packages("foo") 
> install here.
>                                         This is where R puts things.
>
>       /usr/lib/R/site-library           is where most r-cran-* packages go
>
>       /usr/lib/R/library                is where base and 
> recommended r-cran-*
>                                         packages (ie those shipped 
> with R sources)
>                                         go
>

Could I suggest that this information be put in the readme page which 
comes up on CRAN when you click on binaries and then on debian? I did 
eventually work out two thirds of it myself but my desire to know 
where things are being put vastly outstrips my ability to work it out 
for myself.

>Hope this helps, Dirk

It certainly did.

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