Dear Sir, Many thanks.
Best Regards, Ashim On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 5:36 PM Jeroen Ooms <jer...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 11:02 AM Ashim Kapoor <ashimkap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My confusion is : Earlier R --vanilla incantation was working fine, > > even without my intervening and > > adding to R_LIBS. That is why I was confused. > > > > My main query is : Is there anything special to R 4.2.0 which needs > > R_LIBS to be setup seperately? > > I was hit by this problem as well a few weeks ago. You may get a more > detailed answer in r-sig-debian or from Dirk directly, but from what I > understood, this is now expected behavior: indeed if you start R > --vanilla then /usr/local/lib is no longer included in the library > path. > > The reason is that R-core made a change in 4.2.0 to pre-set values for > R_LIBS_USER and R_LIBS_SITE in Renviron [1] which would take > precedence over the proper distro defaults (that include > /usr/local/lib) as configured by the r-base deb/rpm packages. To > mitigate the problem the the r-base deb package moved the appropriate > R_LIBS_USER and R_LIBS_SITE definitions into Renviron.site, which > takes precedence over Renviron. However a side effect of this solution > is that Renviron.site is ignored in --vanilla mode. At least this is > my best understanding of the problem. > > [1] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
