Hi Ben, The documentation for ?.libPaths makes me think you might be able to get somewhere by setting the Windows environment variables R_LIBS and/or R_LIBS_USER. See also: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Packages
Another option would be to create a user profile directly specify the library path there. You can do this by creating and customizing the Rprofile.site file or a .Rprofile file. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Customizing-the-environment I suspect, though I do not know, that the alternate library path (which you do not want) was created because in Windows 7, the Program directory requires elevated privileges. If you installed R in a different directory (I typically use C:\R\), I think this problem might go away (it's also easier to type if you're running any R scripts etc. from the command prompt). Cheers, Josh On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Chiquoine, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I just installed R on a new windows 7 machine and am having a probelm with > the default libraries. The default libraries are not what I want them to be > so when i say install.packages("XXX") the packages don't install where I want > them to. Ideally everything would install to the same location as the base > packages. When I look at my library paths I get the following. > > > >> .libPaths() > [1] "C:\\Users\\Ben\\Documents/R/win-library/2.12" > [2] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.1/library" > > > > if I type > > > >> .libPaths(.libPaths()[2]) > >> .libPaths() > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.1/library" > > This is what I want it to say and packages are now installed where I want > them to be. Unfortunately when I restar R, .libPaths() defaults back to the > original two paths. So the real question is how do I permantly set my > directory to be the one in which the base files are installed? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > > Ben > > ___________________________________________ > This message and any attached documents contain > information which may be confidential, subject to > privilege or exempt from disclosure under applicable > law. These materials are solely for the use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended > recipient of this transmission, you are hereby > notified that any distribution, disclosure, printing, > copying, storage, modification or the taking of any > action in reliance upon this transmission is strictly > prohibited. Delivery of this message to any person > other than the intended recipient shall not > compromise or waive such confidentiality, privilege > or exemption from disclosure as to this > communication. > > If you have received this communication in error, > please notify the sender immediately and delete > this message from your system. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
