Hi,
I'm an experienced R user on windows, but new to linux. This may be an
issue with how R (or Ubuntu) was install on my computer, but maybe not.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04, I have administrator privileges and
am using R 2.11. Here goes:
I'd like to change the location where R installs packages not included
in the base installation (using install.packages()). Right now it is
saving them to
"/home/ken/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11" like it should based on
the default R_LIB_USER setting in /etc/R/Renviron.
I think that this is quite a bulky filepath and would prefer to shorten
it (ie. "~/R/2.11/library"). Unfortunately, /etc/R/ is read only for
me (as is /usr/R/). Therefore I can't change the R_LIB_USER variable.
I understand the rationale behind protecting /etc/ and /usr/, but is
there any way to customize this variable once and not worry about it
when I install future packages?
Thank a lot!
Ken