R and default library - R-help

Wed, Nov 20, 2002 9:39 AM #

Hi,
I have R installed in a system, but I need to install some packages as normal 
user on linux. Is possible to R use others library to get packages or one by 
one?

Ex.

I have some main package installed in /usr/lib/R/library

And now I need to install my own packages in ~/R/library

And I need to use the packages in main library and in my own library.

Its possible?
Thanks
Ronaldo

Problemas todos tem. Ate o Frankstein.
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Brian Ripley

Wed, Nov 20, 2002 10:53 AM #

There's an example in ?Startup with exactly this.
(If you don't see the point of R_LIBS, search for it in ?library.)

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Ronaldo Reis Jr. wrote:

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Deepayan Sarkar

Wed, Nov 20, 2002 11:58 AM #

(Assuming that you are on Unix/Linux,) You can install libraries from source 
to anywhere you want by using the -l flag to R INSTALL, e.g.

R INSTALL -l ~/R/library <package>.tar.gz

You can load them inside R by 

library(package, lib.loc = "~/R/library")

(If you want to do this often, you might want to have a .Renviron file under ~ 
with the line

R_LIBS=~/R/library

in which case library() will search for a package there before looking in the 
system wide location.)

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:39 am, Ronaldo Reis Jr. wrote:

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