From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Wed Jul  1 00:49:51 2009
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:49:51 +0200
Subject: [Rd] install.packages with R 2.9.1 under Vista?
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spencerg wrote:
> 
>      What do I need to do to get "install.packages" to work properly for 
> me in R 2.9.1 under Vista?
> 
>      Currently, install.packages in Rgui 2.9.1 by default goes to 
> "C:\\Users\\sgraves\\Documents/R/win-library/2.9".  This is a problem 
> for me, because R running under Emacs does not currently look there.
> 
>      I made the mistake last night of first installing R 2.9.1 in the 
> default "C:\Program Files".  When I found that packages I installed 
> using Rgui could not be found from within Emacs, I uninstalled R from 
> "C:\Program Files" and reinstalled it under "C:\Users\sgraves\R" 
> alongside R 2.9.0, which has allowed "install.packages" from Rgui to be 
> accessed from R under Emacs.
> 
>      I've traced the problem to the different behavior of ".libPaths()":
> 
> *** Rgui: .libPaths()
> [1] "C:\\Users\\sgraves\\Documents/R/win-library/2.9"
> [2] "C:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.9.1/library" 
> 
> *** R under Emacs: > .libPaths()
> [1] "c:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.9.1/library"
> 
> 
>      What do you suggest?      Thanks,



Either set for the second setup 
"C:\\Users\\sgraves\\Documents/R/win-library/2.9" as a default library 
path (e.g. via env var R_LIBS) or remove it from the  first setup (in a 
personal startup file).

Best wishes,
Uwe



>      Spencer
> 
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[Rd] install.packages with R 2.9.1 under Vista?
Uwe Ligges