>>>>> Gabriel Becker
>>>>> on Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:09:57 -0800 writes:
> Of course you can, but the ability to do something via R
> code and the ability to do them by wrapping the invocation
> of R are not similar terms of convenience, IMO.
> I say that as someone who routinely does both type of
> thing.
> ~G
I agree with Gabe here.
Also, R allows the user to remove their own home directory, it
should also allow to get a .libPaths() which contains nothing compulsory
but R's own .Library {as only that can contain 'base' !}
Martin
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel
> <e...@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 8 December 2020 at 23:00, Dario Strbenac wrote: |
>> Could .libPaths gain an option to ignore all values other
>> than the user-specified new parameter? Currently, it
>> takes the union of new and .Library and .Library.site and
>> there is no way to turn it off.
>>
>> Are you use? It is constructed from looking at
>> environment variables you could set.
>>
>> edd@rob:~$ R_LIBS="/tmp" R_LIBS_SITE="/var" Rscript -e
>> 'print(.libPaths())' [1] "/tmp" "/var"
>> "/usr/lib/R/library" edd@rob:~$
>>
>> Dirk
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