[R-sig-Debian] Changing R_LIB_USER variable in ubuntu...

[Kenneth Takagi]

thank a lot for you answer.  Since I'm new to linux, I still have a 
couple questions based on your response:

1) do I create a file named .Renvirons or just Renvirons in my home directory?

@) In the following lines of the script:
> ### Packages in the home directory:
> R_LIBS="~/.R-site/site-library:${R_LIBS}"

how exactly would I change the file path to"~/R/2.11/library") for example?

Thanks for putting up with my limited knowledge, I'm slowly learning!

Best,
Ken





Quoting Christophe Bonenfant <bonenfan at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr>:

> Dear Ken,
>
> I changed the lib path as you would like on my Debian system. The only
> thing you have to do is to create a .Renviron file in your home directory.
>
> Mine looks like:
>
> ### xpdf as the default pdf viewer
> R_PDFVIEWER='/usr/bin/xpdf'
>
> ### To get R in English:
> LANGUAGE=en
>
> ### Packages in the home directory:
> R_LIBS="~/.R-site/site-library:${R_LIBS}"
>
> Change the path to your convenience. R will read this file when
> launched. You will not need root privileges to intall packages anymore.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Christophe
>
> Le 30/05/2010 05:44, Kenneth Takagi a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm an experienced R user on windows, but new to linux.  This may be an
>> issue with how R (or Ubuntu) was install on my computer, but maybe not.
>>   I just installed Ubuntu 10.04, I have administrator privileges and am
>> using R 2.11.  Here goes:
>>
>> I'd like to change the location where R installs packages not included
>> in the base installation (using install.packages()).  Right now it is
>> saving them to
>> "/home/ken/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11" like it should based on
>> the default R_LIB_USER setting in /etc/R/Renviron.
>>
>> I think that this is quite a bulky filepath and would prefer to shorten
>> it (ie. "~/R/2.11/library").  Unfortunately, /etc/R/ is read only for me
>> (as is /usr/R/).  Therefore I can't change the R_LIB_USER variable.  I
>> understand the rationale behind protecting /etc/ and /usr/, but is there
>> any way to customize this variable once and not worry about it when I
>> install future packages?
>>
>> Thank a lot!
>>
>> Ken
>>
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