On 14 May 2025 at 09:12, Stephen Bond wrote: | I do not care about version. My packages are in | | /home/stephen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/ | | and and after renaming the 4.4 folder I can load them. | How do you avoid the version naming of the package folder?
It's a personal preference but I tend to set things up such that I have no user-local directory, and that has worked for a few decades now: $ Rscript -e 'print(.libPaths())' [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/library" $ If one likes to have one it is still possibly to skip either or both of the architecture and the version part, see eg /etc/R/Renviron* and the hint about the help(Startup) page. | This is not really pressing as even as is the setup is acceptable. I | did not know packages from older versions work on upgraded r-base. It is hard to get an official word. I think R Core still 'recommends it' just to start from a clean plate, but I know from my Debian packaging work that it is (generally) not a requirement as R Core is so careful about not removing things from the ABI. Packages build under older R generally just work, which is a good thing. (Packages built under newer R get you a warning 'built under X.Y ...'.) So for me no need for a forced rebuild and installation of all packages. Best, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
