"J" == J Andy Royle <jar at oriole.er.usgs.gov> writes:
J> Hello, I created a library for a bunch of functions that I use
J> frequently so that I dont have to carry duplicate copies around to
J> wherever I fire up an R sesssion. However, I have problems locating
J> the help files for those functions. Here are some details.
J> I created the library "myR" and installed this in /home/royle/R
J> using:
J> R INSTALL -l /home/royle/R /home/royle/Rpackages/myR
J> This went well, and I can access all of those functions in the usual
J> way....i.e. like:
J> library(myR,lib.loc="/home/royle/R/")
J> But, I found that to get the help files I have to type:
J> help(interp,lib.loc="/home/royle/R/")
J> and so it is kind of a pain .....
.........
J> The question: is there a way to make these help files accessible
J> when installed in a something other than the default library tree
J> _without_ using the lib.loc option in help?
J> Possible solution: It seems to me that I could add my new library
J> tree to .lib.loc but wouldn't I have to create a new .lib.loc in
J> every R session?
The online help [?.lib.loc or ?library ..]
gives the solution:
`.lib.loc' is a character vector with the
locations of all library trees that R should use. It
is initialized at startup from the environment variable
`RLIBS', which should be a colon-separated list of
directories at which R library trees are rooted, and
`.Library'.
So, 1) in a [t]csh environment, you'd write in your ~/.login setenv RLIBS /home/royle/R 2) in [ba|k]sh environment, you'd have in your ~/.profile RLIBS=/home/royle/R export RLIBS --- Martin -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._