[R] Can I safely use an installed R folder in a portable manner?

[Jeff Newmiller]

If you don't want to disturb the existing install of R then you might want to take some effort to bring your library with you and avoid letting your copy of R mess with the default user library. Packrat may help with this?

On October 9, 2018 2:13:40 PM PDT, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Marc,
>I do this quite often with Tcl-Tk. All you have to do is make sure
>that the PATH contains the correct location for the R executable if
>you don't specify it within your program.
>
>Jim
>On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:58 AM Marc Capavanni via R-help
><r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm currently using R on Windows as part of a piece of software and
>when
>> I'm providing it to users I have an application that runs the R
>> installation file with an INF file containing the following settings
>as to
>> not disrupt existing installs of R on their system.
>>
>> [Setup]
>> Lang=en
>> Dir=.\R_Install\
>> Group=R
>> NoIcons=1
>> SetupType=user32
>> Components=main,i386
>> Tasks=
>> [R]
>> MDISDI=MDI
>> HelpStyle=HTML
>>
>> The aim using this INF file is that the install should not touch the
>> registry, or add any icons/shortcuts anywhere.
>>
>> This R install does not need to do much aside from provide the R
>> executables (particularly rscript.exe) for use, so I don't need it to
>be on
>> the PATH, for it to handle R files being double clicked by the user,
>etc.
>>
>> However, I've recently found that taking the installed R folder and
>using
>> it on another PC without running the installer *seems* to work just
>fine
>> (at least for my use case of simply accessible the executables). This
>would
>> make "installing"/"uninstalling" easier as it would simply be a case
>of
>> copying the folder, and later on deleting it.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is anything I'm missing here that would make
>this
>> not feasible.
>>
>> Can I safely use an installed R folder, as a base for copying it to
>other
>> PCs in a portable manner?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marc
>>
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