R help - Mar 2003 - Package installation when $RHOME is not writable (win)

Your are looking for the environment variable R_LIBS, which allows local
installation of packages. See "R Installation and Administration" and
"An Introduction to R", which you find by help.start(). Note that
R_LIBS
can be set by the shell script or ~/Renviron as said in the former
document.

Cheers

Henrik Bengtsson
Mathematical Statistics, Lund University
 
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> Subject: [R] Package installation when $RHOME is not writable (win)
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> I'm using R in a student lab with machines running win XP.  
> $RHOME is not writable by the students.  How do I set this up 
> so that they can install packages?
>                
> Thanks,
> Robert.
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> Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia Room V133  ph 
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Hi,

I think this is covered in R for Windows FAQ in Section 2.11 and 2.12 
(http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/rw-FAQ.html)

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Robert King wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:40:32 +1100 (EST)
> From: Robert King <robert.king at newcastle.edu.au>
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Package installation when $RHOME is not writable (win)
> 
> I'm using R in a student lab with machines running win XP.  $RHOME is
not
> writable by the students.  How do I set this up so that they can install
> packages?
>                
> Thanks,
> Robert.
> ----
> Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
> University of Newcastle, Australia
> Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
> Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au   http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/
> 
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Kevin

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I'm using R in a student lab with machines running win XP.  $RHOME is not
writable by the students.  How do I set this up so that they can install
packages?
               
Thanks,
Robert.
----
Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
University of Newcastle, Australia
Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au   http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:40:32PM +1100, Robert King
wrote:
> I'm using R in a student lab with machines running win XP.  $RHOME is
not
> writable by the students.  How do I set this up so that they can install
> packages?
>                
> Thanks,
> Robert.
> ----
> Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
> University of Newcastle, Australia
> Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
> Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au   http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
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I am not very familiar with the windows version, but on unices this can be done
without any problem.
Try '?install.packages' and check the parameter 'lib' (or
'instlib')


Hopin' it helps,


Laurent



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