Thanks for your response. However, I need more guidance. 1) I searched the archives of this list back to June 1. I found no discussion on this subject as I examined all the subject titles for the string [Ww]in.
2) I tried (what I understand) to be you suggestion. I created etc/Renviron.site: R_LIBS_SITE="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library:C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\Packages" 3) As a test, downloading a package resulted in it being stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Temp\RtmpO7pcpi\downloaded_packages 4) From the documantation of Renviron: Unix versions of R have a file 'R_HOME/etc/Renviron' which is read very early in the start-up processing. It contains environment variables set by R in the configure process, and is *not used on R for Windows*. I seek your guidance, for I quickly need to deploy R and selected contributed packages on several classroom computers. Mike On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> As a sys admin, how do I install packages so that there is one common >> library for all users of the MS Windows computer, instead of the >> default individual location for each user? >> >> I've done this for Linux. > > The same way. You set R_LIBS_SITE in etc/Renviron.site. See ?.Library.site > > This was discussed on this list with the last couple of weeks, so please do > check the archives. > >> Thanks, in advance, for your help. >> >> Mike > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
