On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> ?tempdir says
>
> By default, ‘tmpdir’ will be the directory given by ‘tempdir()’.
> This will be a subdirectory of the temporary directory found by
> the following rule. The environment variables ‘TMPDIR’, ‘TMP’ and
> ‘TEMP’ are checked in turn and the first found which points to a
> writable directory is used: if none succeeds ‘/tmp’ is used.
>
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
>
It does - you are just setting the environment variable too late - the
temporary directory is determined at R startup:
$ TMPDIR=/Users/urbanek R --slave -e 'print(tempdir())'
[1] "/Users/urbanek/RtmpDee89D"
Cheers,
Simon
>> Sys.setenv(TMPDIR='/home/brian/')
>> Sys.getenv('TMPDIR')
> [1] "/home/brian/"
>> tempdir()
> [1] "/tmp/RtmpfERGay"
>
>
>> Sys.setenv(TEMP='/home/brian/')
>> Sys.getenv('TEMP')
> [1] "/home/brian/"
>> tempdir()
> [1] "/tmp/RtmpfERGay"
>
>
>> Sys.setenv(TMP='/home/brian/')
>> Sys.getenv('TMP')
> [1] "/home/brian/"
>> tempdir()
> [1] "/tmp/RtmpfERGay"
>
>
> Our /tmp/ directory is not very large, so I'd like to create tempdir()'s
> in someplace that has space.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Brian
>
> --
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