[R-SIG-Mac] Where are my packages?

[Simon Urbanek]

If you simply want to re-install the same packages you had, it's as simple as

install.packages(row.names(installed.packages("~/Library/R/2.12/library")))

Cheers,
Simon


On May 19, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> You can have packages two places
>  (1) system wide
>  (2) user specific
> The packages that ship with R always install system wide which is why
> - when you look in your user specific packages - you don't see any.
> 
> You need to reinstall the packages for 2.13.  You cannot just copy the
> directories.  You can use the directory to figure out which packages
> you did install.
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Wayne Gray <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> I just upgraded to 2.13 from 2.12.
>> 
>> As far as I can figure things are working well except that none of the packages I downloaded for 2.12 are available to 2.13. That would not be an issue as it is easy to download packages as needed. I can do this and they work.
>> 
>> What is the issue is that I don't know where they are being stored. The ones for 2.12 are here:
>> 
>> /Users/wgray/Library/R/2.12/library
>> 
>> 2.13 created a similar directory but there is nothing in it.
>> 
>> In the Preferences for 2.13 I do have the box checked to make  ~/Library/R... the default path (as per the screen shot attached to this email but probably stripped out by the listserv software). And, yes, I have restarted my machine several times since this was checked (I think I set this two days ago).
>> 
>> So stuff is somewheres as the package install when I load them. I would like to know (a) where they are, (b) how I can get them to go into the ~/Library/R... directory, and (c) whether it is prudent and reasonable to move everything that is in the 2.12 library into the 2.13 library.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
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