R help - Mar 2011 - Libraries issue

Hi, I've just discovered R keeps installing my packages into 
C:\Users\Ben instead of "C:\\Users\\Ben;/R/win-library/2.12" which is 
what is returned by running Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER").


I've tried setting environment variables in windows control panel of

R_LIBS.


But nothing seems to be working, it still wants to fill my user folder, 
I've tried uninstalling and re-installing but it still does the same 
thing. Does anybody know how I can fix this?

Thanks,
Ben W.



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Hi Ben,

I could be completely off target (corrections welcome if I am), but I
think the semicolon in the environment variable is making two separate
paths and maybe R chooses the first?  It should be easy to try
changing.

HTH,

Josh

(and sorry for the wild goose hunt if my memory is shoddy)

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Ben Ward <benjamin.ward at bathspa.org>
wrote:
> Hi, I've just discovered R keeps installing my packages into
> C:\Users\Ben instead of "C:\\Users\\Ben;/R/win-library/2.12"
which is
> what is returned by running Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER").
>
>
> I've tried setting environment variables in windows control panel of
>
> R_LIBS.
>
>
> But nothing seems to be working, it still wants to fill my user folder,
> I've tried uninstalling and re-installing but it still does the same
> thing. Does anybody know how I can fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben W.
>
>
>
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On Mar 19, 2011, at 17:37 , Ben Ward wrote:
> Hi, I've just discovered R keeps installing my packages into 
> C:\Users\Ben instead of "C:\\Users\\Ben;/R/win-library/2.12"
which is
> what is returned by running Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER").
> 
Er, I'm rusty on Windows, but that's what it is supposed to do,
isn't it? It's a path with two semicolon separated directories.

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