Hi everyone, Your help worked for me. Thanks a lot for your response
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Removed r-help, keeping it on r-sig-debian only) > > On 19 August 2011 at 13:10, Mary Kindall wrote: > | I installed some downloaded packages in R. I always do > | $sudo R CMD INSTALL <anRpackage.tar.gz> > | > | > | By default it is storing these packages into my directory > | /home/mary/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/. > | > | However I want them to be systemwide into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ > | folder. > | > | I tried > | $sudo R > | R> install.packages("anRpackage", dep=TRUE) > | > | I did not succeed into getting them install in req folder. > | Any idea? > > Yes, this is my preference too, and it can be achieved in a number of > ways. Here is what I do: > > 1. Write-permission -- I have set up the Debian / Ubuntu package to create > the top-level directory witrh group 'staff' and group-wide mode: > > $ ls -dl /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ > drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2011-03-11 09:51 > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ > > So you have to add yourself to the 'staff' group (which always exists), > or another suitable group, and/or take other equivalent measures. If you > can write there, you do not even need 'sudo'. That is a good thing. > > 2. Select the target directory explicitly, so a local R function helps, or > in my case a local adaption of the script 'install.r' from the littler > package: > > $ cat ~/bin/install.r > #!/usr/bin/env r > # > # a simple example to install one or more packages > > if (is.null(argv) | length(argv)<1) { > > cat("Usage: installr.r pkg1 [pkg2 pkg3 ...]\n") > q() > > } > > ## adjust as necessary, see help('download.packages') > #repos <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org"; > repos <- "http://cran.r-project.org"; > > ## this makes sense on Debian where no packages touch /usr/local > lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > > install.packages(argv, lib.loc, repos) > > > > The main key here is that the source repo and the target directory are > hardwired, and then I can just say > > $ ~/bin/install.r foo bar biz > > and those three packages get installed to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library > > Hope this helps, Dirk > > -- > Two new Rcpp master classes for R and C++ integration scheduled for > New York (Sep 24) and San Francisco (Oct 8), more details are at > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/08/04#rcpp_classes_2011-09_and_2011-10 > > http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/training/public/rcpp-master-class.php > -- ------------- Mary Kindall Yorktown Heights, NY USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
