R help - Nov 2011 - Question about package installation

Hi, I am working with R on a Mac. I need to use a couple of packages that I
found on the Web site. I install them using Packages and Data: Package Manager.
I leave R and come back another time and the installed packages are not
installed. So I do it again. Not a big deal, but is there anyway to make the
installation permanent? I want to run R through a 3rd party data management
software and since the installation is not permanent it can't do the
analysis through the third party software. Thanks.
Roger Coupal
Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of wyoming
coupal@uwyo.edu
307.766.5539







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I don't really know about the second half of your email, but are you sure
you don't just need to reload the packages with the library() command rather
than reinstalling them?

It's also to set up autoload: google Rprofile for instructions. 

Michael

On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Roger Coupal <coupal at uwyo.edu> wrote:
> Hi, I am working with R on a Mac. I need to use a couple of packages that I
found on the Web site. I install them using Packages and Data: Package Manager.
I leave R and come back another time and the installed packages are not
installed. So I do it again. Not a big deal, but is there anyway to make the
installation permanent? I want to run R through a 3rd party data management
software and since the installation is not permanent it can't do the
analysis through the third party software. Thanks.
> Roger Coupal
> Agricultural and Applied Economics
> University of wyoming
> coupal at uwyo.edu
> 307.766.5539
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On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Roger Coupal wrote:
> Hi, I am working with R on a Mac. I need to use a couple of packages  
> that I found on the Web site. I install them using Packages and  
> Data: Package Manager. I leave R and come back another time and the  
> installed packages are not installed. So I do it again. Not a big  
> deal, but is there anyway to make the installation permanent? I want  
> to run R through a 3rd party data management software and since the  
> installation is not permanent it can't do the analysis through the  
> third party software. Thanks.
Mac specific questions are supposed to be directed to the RSIG-Mac  
mailing list. I can say that your description will almost certainly be  
insufficient, since you are clearly using the R.app GUI and (almost)  
all of us who have been doing so get permanent installation when we do  
so. I have not seen a prevous complaint about transient installations  
and I have read the list for several years now.  So read the Posting  
Guide, construct a more explicit description of how you installed R,  
include sessionInfo() and .Libpaths() information and send to the  
correct list.
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West Hartford, CT