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...or privileges and am using R 2.11. Here goes: I'd like to change the location where R installs packages not included in the base installation (using install.packages()). Right now it is saving them to "/home/ken/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11" like it should based on the default R_LIB_USER setting in /etc/R/Renviron. I think that this is quite a bulky filepath and would prefer to shorten it (ie. "~/R/2.11/library"). Unfortunately, /etc/R/ is read only for me (as is /usr/R/). Therefore I can't change the R_LIB_USER variable. I understand the rationale behind prote...

...he source code (rather than binary) for ISwR and extracted it to [4]. So I have copies of all three - I just can't get R to recognize them. Also, if helpful, my .Library value is "/usr/lib/R/library"; hence R "likes" most of the packages there. Also, my Sys.getenv("R_LIB_USER") is ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9 (i.e. same as .libPaths()[1]). If you have ideas, please tell me. Also, if you suggest re-downloading after a little switcheroo like .libPaths()[5] <-.libPaths()[1]; .LibPaths()[1] <-.libPaths()[4] that makes (conceptual) sense to me but because...