On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:35 PM, 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" > >
Its normally better to have your library in your own user area (which is what its doing for you) so that you don't need Administrative privileges to install packages. Unless there is some good reason not to want the default set up you should think about just going with it. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.
