See help(.Library). Sean
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:35 AM, jochen laubrock <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear expeRts, > > On (my?) macs, .libPaths() contains two entries, with the first pointing to a > user's library tree and the second to the system-wide library tree, as in > > ## begin code > v <- getRversion() > userLib <- Sys.glob(sprintf("~/Library/R/%s.%s/library", v$major, v$minor)) > systemLib <- > sprintf("/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/%s.%s/Resources/library", > v$major, v$minor) > userLib == .libPaths()[1] > systemLib == .libPaths()[2] > # both return TRUE (on my system) > ## end code > > When installing new packages, I would like to make them available to all > users. However, the 'lib' parameter of 'install.packages' defaults to the > first element of '.libPaths()'. How do I reliably specify the location of the > system library: Is it always equal to '.libPaths()[-1]'? And why is > '.Library.site' empty? > > Jochen > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > ---- > Jochen Laubrock, Dept. of Psychology, University of Potsdam, > Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany > phone: +49-331-977-2346, fax: +49-331-977-2793 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
