No "doc" directory in my installation of R.
If you start R just using the regular command line version (not
RStudio), does
Sys.getenv("R_DOC_DIR")
point to /usr/share/R/doc ? The standard R startup script should do
that, but if it doesn't maybe you've got an override?
Or maybe you have R_DOC_DIR defined yourself?
Duncan Murdoch
On 07/08/2021 10:45 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
Should/shouldn't there be one? My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R. If do an "ls" of this directory, I get:
bin/ COPYING@ etc/ lib/ library/ modules/ site-library/ SVN-REVISION
Definitely no "doc". The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc" directory. When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the error message
R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.
Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R.
The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where
Rstudio wants it to. So I created the symbolic link.
The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry.
My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install
r-base"). I apparently have the latest version. I remark that I am
running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop.
How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio
happy?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the Rstudio community
forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one.
R. T.
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