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

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Ken,

you can override R_LIBS_USER in ~/.Rprofile (in your case this expands to 
/home/ken/.Rprofile). For example, I have 

	R_LIBS_USER="~/lib/R/library"

in my file. Details can be found from within R with 

	> ?Startup

Note that R CMD does not seem to respect the settings in ~/.Rprofile. If I 
recall correctly, it used to in earlier R versions.

Kind regards,

Johannes



Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010, um 05:44:24 schrieb Kenneth Takagi:
> 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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