On 9 May 2010 at 18:50, Sebastian P. Luque wrote: | On Sun, 9 May 2010 17:57:40 -0500, | Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: | | > The Debian package should only set these env vars if these are | > otherwise unset: | | > e...@ron:~> Rscript -e 'print(.libPaths())' ## default [1] | > "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [3] | > "/usr/lib/R/library" e...@ron:~> R_LIBS_SITE="/tmp" Rscript -e | > 'print(.libPaths())' [1] "/tmp" "/usr/lib/R/library" e...@ron:~> | > R_LIBS_USER="/tmp" Rscript -e 'print(.libPaths())' [1] "/tmp" | > "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" | > "/usr/lib/R/library" e...@ron:~> | | > There may well be a bug lurking somewhere but at leats here I got to | > modify libPaths on the fly. | | > Good enough? | | Great, I guess that's what I'm trying to get at: one would have to start | R-devel with a long string. I thought there would be a way to just do | 'R' or '~/src/R-devel/bin/R' and then have a mechanism in the user | startup files to ensure that Debian site libraries are added only when | using R-devel. Thanks Dirk, that should get me en route!
Another possibility is to use ~/.Rprofile and to directly set this as an argument to to the .libPaths() function -- see help(.libPaths). -- Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
