R help - Mar 2014 - Updating R and Bioconductor packages in a different folder.

Dear all,
I use R on a server on which I don't have administrative access.
I would like to update some of the R and Bioconductor packages I use
for my daily analysis,
however some of those packages are installed system-wide.
I would like to know how I can update those packages installing them
in my ~/R/ folder, and if this would cause any incompatibility.

So how can I get a list of packages that needs updating and force the
update to install them in my local folder?

Thanks a lot in advance for all the help,

Cheers,
Luca

On 06/03/2014 09:51, Luca Cerone wrote:
> Dear all,
> I use R on a server on which I don't have administrative access.
> I would like to update some of the R and Bioconductor packages I use
> for my daily analysis,
> however some of those packages are installed system-wide.
> I would like to know how I can update those packages installing them
> in my ~/R/ folder, and if this would cause any incompatibility.
>
> So how can I get a list of packages that needs updating and force the
> update to install them in my local folder?
It sounds like you want the 'instlib' argument to update.packages().

But if not, study the code of update.packages and modify to suit.
> Thanks a lot in advance for all the help,
>
> Cheers,
> Luca
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