On 05/29/2010 11:44 PM, Kenneth Takagi wrote:
Hi,
I'm an experienced R user on windows, but new to linux. This may be an
issue with how R (or Ubuntu) was install on my computer, but maybe not.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04, I have administrator privileges and am
using R 2.11. Here goes:
I'd like to change the location where R installs packages not included
in the base installation (using install.packages()). Right now it is
saving them to
"/home/ken/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11" like it should based on
the default R_LIB_USER setting in /etc/R/Renviron.
I think that this is quite a bulky filepath and would prefer to shorten
it (ie. "~/R/2.11/library"). Unfortunately, /etc/R/ is read only for me
(as is /usr/R/). Therefore I can't change the R_LIB_USER variable. I
understand the rationale behind protecting /etc/ and /usr/, but is there
any way to customize this variable once and not worry about it when I
install future packages?
Ken,
When I install packages in R using Ubunutu, I always use 'sudo'.
[command line]sudo R
...R launches...
>install.packages("foo")
That will install the packages in a /usr directory and all users on the
machine will have access to them.
If that is not what you are looking for, let us know.
Michael
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