Russell,
On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:39 , Almond, Russell wrote:
I recently upgraded my computer and I'm trying an experiment in
which my
day-to-day usage account does not have admin privileges.
I'm trying to install a package (say coda) using the "At User Level"
option
and the package installer GUI. The package downloads correctly and
no error
message is reported at the console. However, when I try load the
packages,
I get an error message:
library(coda)
Error in library(coda) : there is no package called 'coda'
Additionally, .libPaths() only returns the system library, nothing
in my
home directory.
.libPaths()
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"
Oops. I just figured this out. There is an option in the
preferences that
add $HOME/R/x.y/library to .libPaths(). I would argue that this
needs to
be turned on by default, as most users without admin privileges will
have
difficulty finding it (I certainly took me 1/2 of poking around).
That is in fact the default. (I.e. the default is 'enabled' if you
don't have admin privileges). You probably had admin privileges when
first running the GUI so is was disabled for you.
Cheers,
Simon
--Russell Almond
sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] RMySQL_0.6-1 DBI_0.2-4 coda_0.13-3 lattice_0.17-13
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.7.2 tools_2.7.2
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