R help - Mar 2011 - How to enforce location of installation of downloaded packages

Using R on Linux I want to force downloaded packages to go into
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library.  I have an .Rprofile file in my home
directory containing the following:

options(help_type='html', browser='chromium-browser',
repos='http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN',
lib='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library')

But sometimes install.packages (with R run as superuser using sudo) will
create a directory called x86... under ~/R and put installed packages there. 
How do I force the system to always use /usr/local/lib/...?

Thanks
Frank


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Frank Harrell
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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install.packages(...., lib='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library')

otherwise you have to ensure that this library is the first one in 
.libPaths() and watch out that it is not changed by any of the many 
mechanisms that allow for adding libraries to the search path.

Uwe


On 09.03.2011 00:53, Frank Harrell wrote:
> Using R on Linux I want to force downloaded packages to go into
> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library.  I have an .Rprofile file in my home
> directory containing the following:
>
> options(help_type='html', browser='chromium-browser',
> repos='http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN',
> lib='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library')
>
> But sometimes install.packages (with R run as superuser using sudo) will
> create a directory called x86... under ~/R and put installed packages
there.
> How do I force the system to always use /usr/local/lib/...?
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
> -----
> Frank Harrell
> Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
> --
> View this message in context:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-enforce-location-of-installation-of-downloaded-packages-tp3342495p3342495.html
> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
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