thank a lot for you answer. Since I'm new to linux, I still have a
couple questions based on your response:
1) do I create a file named .Renvirons or just Renvirons in my home directory?
@) In the following lines of the script:
### Packages in the home directory:
R_LIBS="~/.R-site/site-library:${R_LIBS}"
how exactly would I change the file path to"~/R/2.11/library") for example?
Thanks for putting up with my limited knowledge, I'm slowly learning!
Best,
Ken
Quoting Christophe Bonenfant <[email protected]>:
Dear Ken,
I changed the lib path as you would like on my Debian system. The only
thing you have to do is to create a .Renviron file in your home directory.
Mine looks like:
### xpdf as the default pdf viewer
R_PDFVIEWER='/usr/bin/xpdf'
### To get R in English:
LANGUAGE=en
### Packages in the home directory:
R_LIBS="~/.R-site/site-library:${R_LIBS}"
Change the path to your convenience. R will read this file when
launched. You will not need root privileges to intall packages anymore.
Hope this helps.
Christophe
Le 30/05/2010 05:44, Kenneth Takagi a écrit :
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?
Thank a lot!
Ken
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