[R] customizing library locations for R in ubuntu

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 May 2025 at 16:21, ravi via R-help wrote:
| I have now followed your advice and switched to the R-sig-debian help list.

Good -- though I have not yet seen a post from you. You need to subscribe,
and you need to post from the subscribed email.

| On Thursday, 15 May 2025 at 12:59:05 CEST, ravi <rv15i using yahoo.se> wrote: 
| 
| I did some googling and then ran:
| > bspm::shadowed_packages()
|      Package                 LibPath Version       Shadow.LibPath Shadow.Version Shadow.Newer
| bspm    bspm /usr/lib/R/site-library   0.5.7 /home/ravi/rvi/Rlib          0.5.7        FALSE

It's harmless. The 'shadowed' packages is a debug helper to isolate a
possible 'why is my updated package not reflected' question. It does no harm
in general, R will use the first version found if several are available. Now,
bspm itself must be in /usr/local for handshake to the python-apt interface
and the sudo capability.

Dirk

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