[R] How do you change library location ? (in R under windows XP)

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.04.2010 21:12, Tal Galili wrote:
> Thank you Mike,
> That is indeed what I used in the code eventually.
> http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/

.... which shows we do not need the code that is much more error prone 
than setting a single environment variable, as far as I can see.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks for answering,
> Tal
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> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Mike Prager<mhprager.pdy at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:22:45 +0300, Tal Galili<tal.galili at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Due to the new R 2.11 release, I want to implement Dirk's suggestion
>>> here<
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401904/painless-way-to-install-a-new-version-of-r
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> So for that I am asking - How can I (permanently) change R's library path?
>>> (The best solution would be one that can be run from within R)
>>
>> To me, it seemed more straightforward to do this outside R.
>>
>> Just set the environment variable R_LIBS in Windows to something like
>>
>> R_LIBS=c:/R/Library
>>
>> Then, delete your R installation. Install the new version and all
>> desired packages.  The add-on packages will be located according to
>> your environment setting, and future updates will not require add-on
>> packages to be copied or reloaded.
>>
>> HTH
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