On 20 December 2021 at 11:25, David Winsemius wrote: | Ran `update.packages()` again and found quite a few not-yet-updated | packages, many of them fairly essential, but NOT in the directory you | were worried about, but rather such as in '/usr/lib/R/site-library' and | '/usr/lib/R/library' [...] | Thanks for the impetus to change that annoying, but eventually | misleading, local user library name. I'd been meaning to do that for a | while, and thanks for the advice to recheck version numbers. I'm not | quite sure how I got away with this for so long.
Glad to hear you are sorted out! For what it is worth I - do not use private user libraries [1] - run update.packages() (over all of .libPaths()) daily to weekly No issues. Dirk [1] That is personal preference I reflected in the Debian package for your actively suppressing them til I was told I can't / shouldn't. Now I just suppress them at my end by setting the env vars to empty strings (and of course ensure that /usr/local/lib/R/site-library is group-writeable by a group I am in.) -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
