I'm having trouble running `updates.packages()' and installing into a personal library.
Setup: 1. .Renviron file contains: R_LIBS_USER="~/lib/R/%p-library/%v" 2. Hence "personal library" is: ~/lib/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/ 3. Library path upon starting R: > .libPaths() [1] "/home/johnny/lib/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6" [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [4] "/usr/lib/R/library" That's the setup. The problem is that `update.packages()' does not consider packages in my personal library when determining what to update. To elaborate: Here's some output when I update packages: > update.packages(instlib=.libPaths()[1]) KernSmooth : Version 2.22-21 installed in /usr/lib/R/library Version 2.22-22 available at http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu Update (y/N/c)? ... I answer "yes" to everything, and the update succeeds; updated packages are installed into my personal library, `~/lib/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/'. But if I run the package update command again, immediately after having just run it, I get the exact same output: > update.packages(instlib=.libPaths()[1]) KernSmooth : Version 2.22-21 installed in /usr/lib/R/library Version 2.22-22 available at http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu Update (y/N/c)? R looked in `/usr/lib/R/library', saw that there was a package that needed updating, and neglected the fact that the updated package was already in my personal library. How can I get R to check packages in my personal library while determining what to update? Alan [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
