R devel - Feb 2016 - R Package Installation Ignores libPaths Setting

Good day,

I believe from the documentation that folders in R_LIBS should appear in the
output of .libPaths, but they do not. The documentation contains "The
library search path is initialized at startup from the environment variable
R_LIBS ..."

However,

$ export R_LIBS=/users/stgrad/dario/tmp/
$ Rscript -e ".libPaths()"
[1] "/dskh/nobackup/biostat/Bioconductor"
"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
[3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"            
"/usr/lib/R/library"

Is there some other crucial information which I have missed ?

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

Works for me. Which shell are you using? Are you setting .libPaths elsewhere?

Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ R_LIBS=~/tmp Rscript -e '.libPaths()'
[1] "/Users/pd/tmp"                                                 
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library"

Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ export R_LIBS=~/tmp 
Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ Rscript -e '.libPaths()'
[1] "/Users/pd/tmp"                                                 
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library"

-pd
> On 20 Feb 2016, at 10:00 , Dario Strbenac <dstr7320 at
uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Good day,
> 
> I believe from the documentation that folders in R_LIBS should appear in
the output of .libPaths, but they do not. The documentation contains "The
library search path is initialized at startup from the environment variable
R_LIBS ..."
> 
> However,
> 
> $ export R_LIBS=/users/stgrad/dario/tmp/
> $ Rscript -e ".libPaths()"
> [1] "/dskh/nobackup/biostat/Bioconductor"
"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
> [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"            
"/usr/lib/R/library"
> 
> Is there some other crucial information which I have missed ?
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> PhD Student
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
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Good day,

Thank you for the suggestions. I had a .libPaths command in my .Rprofile file. I
have now removed it and specified R_LIBS in .Renviron.

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia