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4 messages · R Vince, Dirk Eddelbuettel

R Vince
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I'm upgrading from one version of Ubiubta (14) to 17.

On 14, I had a directory structure as follows:

R/--i686-pc-linux-gnu-library
R Vince
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I'm upgrading from one version of Ubiubta (14) to 17.

On 14, I had a directory structure as follows:

/home/rvince/R/--i686-pc-linux-gnu-library
                         --Packages (which contains all my packages )
                          --Work (which contains all my scripts)


So when I invoke a commnd like:

R CMD BATCH /home/rvince/R/Work/ES50update.R R/Work/outfile.txt

it runs my script (ES50Update.R) properly.

I;ve moved the entire directory /home/rvince/R/ and all under it unto the
new Ubuntu install in my home directory again.

I've installed R-Base in Ububtu

When I invole the same command in the new Ubuntu install, my outfile.txt
shows the following. Clearly I've got something installed imporperly or
improperly configured:

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
Loading required package: quantmod
Warning message:
In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
logical.return = TRUE,  :
  there is no package called ?quantmod?
Error in library(plan) : there is no package called ?plan?
Execution halted


Thanks for looking at this. Ralph Vince
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:02 PM, R Vince <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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My apologies to the group -- I understand this is for finance-related
questions only, not system ones. Sorry.

        
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:07 PM, R Vince <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Ralph,

        
On 17 March 2016 at 16:02, R Vince wrote:

        
| I'm upgrading from one version of Ubiubta (14) to 17.
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| On 14, I had a directory structure as follows:
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| R/--i686-pc-linux-gnu-library

I religiously turn off R_LIBS_USER in /etc/R/Renviron to avoid that [1]. I
recommended to everybody who cares to listen to do the same.

If you do that, your path becomes

R> .libPaths()
[1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"       "/usr/lib/R/library"           
R>

and all local installations go into the first of those three directories and
survive upgrades.

Hth, Dirk


[1] And for a while had this globally turned in the official Debian and hence
Ubuntu package but then the regexp broke.

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