On 3/19/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The Ubuntu packages symlink to files in /etc/R > > The simplest way is to replace @CRAN@ in R_HOME/etc/repositories. (See > ?setRepositories.) First thing I tried. This has no effect on my machines. > > Almost as simple is to set e.g. > > options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org";)) > > in R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site (see ?Startup). That's what I was looking for. Several people beat you to it (off list). Cheers, THK > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin Contact info and schedule at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/ Reprints at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/papers/ ODF attachment? See http://www.openoffice.org/ ______________________________________________ [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.
