Hi everyone,
Your help worked for me.
Thanks a lot for your response



On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> (Removed r-help, keeping it on r-sig-debian only)
>
> On 19 August 2011 at 13:10, Mary Kindall wrote:
> | I installed some downloaded packages in R. I always do
> | $sudo R CMD INSTALL <anRpackage.tar.gz>
> |
> |
> | By default it is storing these packages into my directory
> | /home/mary/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/.
> |
> | However I want them to be systemwide into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/
> | folder.
> |
> | I tried
> | $sudo R
> | R> install.packages("anRpackage", dep=TRUE)
> |
> | I did not succeed into getting them install in req folder.
> | Any idea?
>
> Yes, this is my preference too, and it can be achieved in a number of
> ways. Here is what I do:
>
>  1. Write-permission -- I have set up the Debian / Ubuntu package to create
>    the top-level directory witrh group 'staff' and group-wide mode:
>
>    $ ls -dl /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/
>    drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2011-03-11 09:51
> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/
>
>    So you have to add yourself to the 'staff' group (which always exists),
>    or another suitable group, and/or take other equivalent measures. If you
>    can write there, you do not even need 'sudo'. That is a good thing.
>
>  2. Select the target directory explicitly, so a local R function helps, or
>    in my case a local adaption of the script 'install.r' from the littler
> package:
>
>    $ cat ~/bin/install.r
>    #!/usr/bin/env r
>    #
>    # a simple example to install one or more packages
>
>    if (is.null(argv) | length(argv)<1) {
>
>      cat("Usage: installr.r pkg1 [pkg2 pkg3 ...]\n")
>      q()
>
>    }
>
>    ## adjust as necessary, see help('download.packages')
>    #repos <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org"
>    repos <- "http://cran.r-project.org"
>
>    ## this makes sense on Debian where no packages touch /usr/local
>    lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
>
>    install.packages(argv, lib.loc, repos)
>
>
>
>    The main key here is that the source repo and the target directory are
>    hardwired, and then I can just say
>
>    $ ~/bin/install.r foo bar biz
>
>    and those three packages get installed to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
>
> Hope this helps,  Dirk
>
> --
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> New York (Sep 24) and San Francisco (Oct 8), more details are at
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/08/04#rcpp_classes_2011-09_and_2011-10
>
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>



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Mary Kindall
Yorktown Heights, NY
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