Take a look at: R CMD INSTALL --help
and you will realize that you need to specify the library path, e.g. R CMD INSTALL anRpackage --library=/usr/local/... or take a look at ?install.packages and use the second argument, e.g. install.packages('anRpackage', lib = '/usr/local/...') Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Mary Kindall <mary.kind...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed some downloaded packages in R. I always do > $sudo R CMD INSTALL <anRpackage.tar.gz> > > > By default it is storing these packages into my directory > /home/mary/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/. > > However I want them to be systemwide into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ > folder. > > I tried > $sudo R > R> install.packages("anRpackage", dep=TRUE) > > I did not succeed into getting them install in req folder. > Any idea? > > > > -- > ------------- > Mary Kindall > Yorktown Heights, NY > USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.