From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Sun Feb 18 11:05:08 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:05:08 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] R_LIBS setting in R -d gdb
In-Reply-To: <14991.40864.896451.453333@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0102181102000.2115-100000@toucan.stats>

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Kurt Hornik wrote:

> >>>>> Paul Gilbert writes:
>
> > I am trying to catch a segfault from a shell in the tests directory
> > set up by R CMD check with
>
> > R_LIBS=~/dse/CHECKED/library:..
> > export R_LIBS
> > R -d gdb
> > run
>
> > but then when I try to load a library I find the setting of R_LIBS is
> > ignored. What am I doing wrong? The library is found ok without -d
> > gdb. (Using Solaris 2.6, R 1.2.1 Patched (2001-02-06) )
>
> Hmm ... hard to believe:
>
> hornik@mithrandir:~/tmp$ export R_LIBS=~/dse/CHECKED/library:..
> hornik@mithrandir:~/tmp$ R -d gdb
> GNU gdb 19990928
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb) r
> ...
> R> Sys.getenv("R_LIBS")
>                                R_LIBS
> "/home/Hornik/dse/CHECKED/library:.."

Is R_LIBS set anywhere else?  This works for me (Solaris 2.7) if I use
(gdb) r --vanilla to avoid the .Renviron which contains R_LIBS.

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[Rd] R_LIBS setting in R -d gdb
Prof Brian Ripley