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

[Johannes Ranke]

Sorry,

please exchange .Rprofile with .Renviron in my mail.

Johannes

Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010, um 18:12:53 schrieb 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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