On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Fran�ois Pinard wrote:
Hi, R people.
I'm shy reporting this, as a bug in this area sounds very unlikely. Did I make my tests wrongly? I'm still flaky at all this. Let me dare nevertheless, who knows, just in case... Please don't kill me! :-)
Not so long ago, I wrote to this list:
(For now, [the library code] works only for me when I do _not_ use `-l MY/OWN/LIBDIR' at `R CMD INSTALL' time, I surely made a simple blunder somewhere. Hopefully, I'll figure it out.)
Now using this line within `~/.Renviron':
R_LIBS=/home/pinard/etc/R
my tiny package is correctly found by R. However, R does not seem to see any library within that directory if I rather use either of:
R_LIBS=$HOME/etc/R R_LIBS="$HOME/etc/R"
Correct, and as documented.
See the description in ?Startup, which says things like ${foo-bar} are allowed but not $HOME, and not ${HOME}/bah or even ${HOME}.
But R_LIBS=~/etc/R will work in .Renviron since ~ is intepreted by R in paths.
The last writing (I mean, something similar) is suggested somewhere in the R manuals (but I do not have the manual with me right now to give the exact reference, I'm in another town).
It is not mentioned in an R manual, but it is mentioned in the FAQ. R_LIBS=$HOME/etc/R will work in a shell (and R_LIBS=~/etc/R may not).
Another hint that it could be expected to work is that the same `~/.Renviron' once contained the line:
R_BROWSER=$HOME/bin/links
which apparently worked as expected. (This `links' script launches the real program with `-g' appended whenever `DISPLAY' is defined.)
Yes, but that was not interpreted by R, rather a shell script called by R.
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