[R-sig-Debian] running a locally built R-devel with libraries from Debian installation

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 May 2010 at 16:33, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| On Sun, 9 May 2010 16:04:52 -0500,
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
| [...]
| 
| > /etc/R/ -- and see help(Startup) for the files.  All also explained in
| > the R Inst. and Admin manual.
| 
| > If you don't have the softlinks from /etc/R/ then it is
| 
| >    $whereEver/R/etc/
| 
| > instead.
| 
| Thanks, I'm familiar with these, but I was referring to the local
| R-devel so was hoping for something that didn't involve modifying these
| files because they'd get wiped out every time R-devel is rebuilt.
| Perhaps there's just no way around that.

There are still a number of possibilities in the R Inst + Admin manual; a
simple one would be to set the env. var R_LIBS via /etc/environment.  

But you need to tell us what you can or cannot do or want to do.  The 'No
Psychics here' rule applies for you too :)

-- 
  Regards, Dirk