R help - Oct 2006 - setting the environment variable R_LIBS

Thanks to Peter Dalgaard , I have made some decent progress as far as
getting R to work in linux .  I just want to set my environment variable
R_LIBS to /u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/R/library ( in linux ) so that I
can install specific packages.  Does anyone know the syntax and in which
file I set this variable ( .Rprofile etc ). 
I've looked in the installation manual ( i'm mainly on pg 14 ) but I
can't find the answers to these 2 questions. thanks.
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You (can) set environment variables in

	o .cshrc (if your shell is csh or tcsh)

	Syntax:

		setenv R_LIBS /u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/R/library
	
	o .bashrc (if your shell is bash)

	Syntax:

		R_LIBS=/u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/R/library
		export R_LIBS


HTH.
			cheers,

				Rolf Turner
				rolf at math.unb.ca

On 3 October 2006 at 11:19, Leeds, Mark \(IED\) wrote:
| Thanks to Peter Dalgaard , I have made some decent progress as far as
| getting R to work in linux .  I just want to set my environment variable
| R_LIBS to /u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/R/library ( in linux ) so that I
| can install specific packages.  Does anyone know the syntax and in which
| file I set this variable ( .Rprofile etc ). 
| I've looked in the installation manual ( i'm mainly on pg 14 ) but I
| can't find the answers to these 2 questions. thanks.

See '?Startup', you want ~/.Renviron

~> cat ~/.Renviron
R_LIBS="~/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library"

This really is all documented.... Googling for 'Setting R_LIBS' gets
several
hundreds hit, maybe you could try that ...

Dirk

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