lib location different between GUI and terminal?

Hi all,

I just installed a package using the GUI and install.packages( etc)

The I opened the terminal and ran R from there and tried to load the
package which
returned with an error saying the package was not available which
seemed strange to me.

?install.packages says that the default location for installing
packages is
.libPaths()[1]

but this turns out to be different in the GUI:

"/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"

then when R is run from the terminal, which gives:

.libPaths()[1]

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

Is this caused by my settings or is this default behavior? (I don't
remember
ever having this problem before).

Best, Ingmar

Ingmar Visser
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t: +31-20-5256723



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On May 20, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed a package using the GUI and install.packages( etc)

The I opened the terminal and ran R from there and tried to load the
package which
returned with an error saying the package was not available which
seemed strange to me.

?install.packages says that the default location for installing
packages is
.libPaths()[1]

but this turns out to be different in the GUI:

"/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"

Apparently you told the GUI to set it, see R -> Preferences ->  
Startup -> Default Library Paths

That setting is often used by users that either don't have admin  
privileges or want to keep their set of packages separate from the  
system ones. The default is off, so you must have enabled it at  
some point.

Cheers,
Simon

then when R is run from the terminal, which gives:

.libPaths()[1]

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

Is this caused by my settings or is this default behavior? (I don't
remember
ever having this problem before).

Best, Ingmar

Ingmar Visser
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t: +31-20-5256723



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On May 20, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed a package using the GUI and install.packages( etc)

The I opened the terminal and ran R from there and tried to load the
package which
returned with an error saying the package was not available which
seemed strange to me.

?install.packages says that the default location for installing
packages is
.libPaths()[1]

but this turns out to be different in the GUI:

"/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"

Apparently you told the GUI to set it, see R -> Preferences ->  
Startup -> Default Library Paths

That setting is often used by users that either don't have admin  
privileges or want to keep their set of packages separate from the  
system ones. The default is off, so you must have enabled it at  
some point.

On May 20, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

On May 20, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed a package using the GUI and install.packages( etc)

The I opened the terminal and ran R from there and tried to load the
package which
returned with an error saying the package was not available which
seemed strange to me.

?install.packages says that the default location for installing
packages is
.libPaths()[1]

but this turns out to be different in the GUI:

"/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"

Apparently you told the GUI to set it, see R -> Preferences ->  
Startup -> Default Library Paths

That setting is often used by users that either don't have admin  
privileges or want to keep their set of packages separate from the  
system ones. The default is off, so you must have enabled it at  
some point.

Dear Simon and R mac fans,

After unsetting the default library paths option in the preferences  
I get:

.libPaths()[1]

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/library"

And in the terminal I get:

.libPaths()

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

After freshly installing 2.7.0 I get in the GUI:

.libPaths()

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/library"

And after setting the default lib path in the preferences pane:

[1] "/Users/ivisser/Library/R/2.7/library"
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/library"

And in the terminal:

.libPaths()

[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

In the package install menu the default checked option is at "System  
level" meaning in the R framework but it seems that that could still  
be one of two possible paths, ie the versioned path from the GUI or  
the unversioned path from the terminal.