Disable the option in Startup (in case it's enabled), but also delete the
/Users/mjh/Library/R/3.4
directory if you don't want to use it. Once it exists, it will be automatically
picked up by R.
Cheers,
Simon
> On Dec 25, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I seem to have somehow changed this so that for install.packages my user
> location is always selected in preference to the system location.
> Since I may at some point access packages from an application not connected
> to my user I would rather this not be the case.
> What I now get is…
>
> .libPaths()
> [1] "/Users/mjh/Library/R/3.4/library"
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library"
>> install.packages("NOSUCH")
> Installing package into ‘/Users/mjh/Library/R/3.4/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning message:
> package ‘NOSUCH’ is not available (for R version 3.4.3)
>
> So everything is default installed into my user location. This didn’t used to
> be the case, but I do not remember what I may of done to permanently change
> it and so far I can’t figure out how to permanently undo it.
> I have looked at the R Startup command, the OS X app preferences, OS X faq,
> environment variables, the system Resource folder, no .Rprofile is there and
> I didn’t figure out what be causing the setting in Renviron.
>
> How do I permanently remove the user directory from .libPaths?
>
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