Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Tim Keitt wrote: > >> I can't seem to find this anywhere. How do I set the default CRAN >> repository _site wide_ on a linux box? What I want to do is eliminate >> the pop-up list of repository locations when using >> 'install.packages()'. I know how to do this for a single account. >> Modifying files in /etc/R does not seem to work. (cc me please - I >> think I'm not subscribed). > > Modifying files in R_HOME/etc works, but I have no idea why you think > /etc/R is relevant. >
Looks like some distributions package R with that as a configuration directory, for example on my Ubuntu Edgy box: $ ls -l /etc/R total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2561 2006-06-20 07:32 Makeconf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1422 2006-12-05 16:30 Renviron -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 605 2006-06-20 07:32 repositories This is from an R-base-core package maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel from the 'Universe' repository (according to the package meta-data). I've since gone from the R 2.3.1 installed by this package to a compiled 2.4.x, so /etc/R/ is no use to me now - perhaps you've done this too (Tim)? Barry ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
