[R-SIG-Mac] lib location different between GUI and terminal?

[Ingmar Visser]

I did not do anything of the sorts, unless it was subconsciously, I  
had just freshly installed 2.7.0
Could it be accidentally set somehow? Through the package installer  
menu?
Just wild guesses here ...
Best, Ingmar

On May 20, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On May 20, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed a package using the GUI and install.packages( etc)
>>
>> The I opened the terminal and ran R from there and tried to load the
>> package which
>> returned with an error saying the package was not available which
>> seemed strange to me.
>>
>> ?install.packages says that the default location for installing
>> packages is
>> .libPaths()[1]
>>
>> but this turns out to be different in the GUI:
>>
>> "/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"
>>
>
> Apparently you told the GUI to set it, see R -> Preferences ->  
> Startup -> Default Library Paths
>
> That setting is often used by users that either don't have admin  
> privileges or want to keep their set of packages separate from the  
> system ones. The default is off, so you must have enabled it at  
> some point.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> then when R is run from the terminal, which gives:
>>
>>> .libPaths()[1]
>> [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"
>>
>> Is this caused by my settings or is this default behavior? (I don't
>> remember
>> ever having this problem before).
>>
>> Best, Ingmar
>>
>> Ingmar Visser
>> Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
>> Roetersstraat 15
>> 1018 WB Amsterdam
>> The Netherlands
>> t: +31-20-5256723
>>
>>
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