Dear Paul, We install R in C:/R/R-x.y.z and packages in C:/R/library. This makes the packages location independent from the R version.
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus/ Statiscian Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Van 14 tot en met 19 december 2017 verhuizen we uit onze vestiging in Brussel naar het Herman Teirlinckgebouw op de site Thurn & Taxis. Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2017-09-21 15:08 GMT+02:00 Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com>: > Dear Leslie and Thierry, > > Thank you so much for your kind and extremely valuable replies. Only one > doubt remains, which path do you think is the best option to store > downloaded packages? Should I set it up so that all installed packages are > in the same folder (path) that I installed R? Or can I simply set it up so > that all installed packages are stored in a different path? > > Again, thank you guys for all your support, > > Have an amazing day, > > Paul > > 2017-09-21 3:41 GMT-05:00 Leslie Rutkowski <leslie.rutkow...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> I recently ran into file path conflicts and found the following useful >> (looks like you already know the answer to 1.): >> >> 1. Use .libPaths() to find where packages are being stored. >> >> 2. To change this path: Control Panel > search “View advanced system >> settings” > Environment Variables button > >> >> a. Edit current R_LIBS_USER to new file path >> >> b. New R_LIBS_USER with desired file path >> >> 3. Restart machine. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Leslie >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Thierry Onkelinx >> <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Paul, >>> >>> Maybe some of the packages were installed by a user with admin rights >>> and you are installing them with a user how has no admin rights. Thus >>> you have no rights to remove the files created by the admin user. >>> >>> We made clear to our IT departement that they only may install R and >>> not additional packages. We also tell them to set the environment >>> variable R_LIBS_USER to C:/R/library and make sure that the user has >>> full rights to that folder. All user installed packages will go in >>> that folder. A side effect is that all packages remain available after >>> an upgrade of R. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx >>> Statisticus/ Statiscian >>> >>> Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders >>> INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE >>> AND FOREST >>> Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance >>> thierry.onkel...@inbo.be >>> Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussel >>> www.inbo.be >>> >>> >>> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >>> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no >>> more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be >>> able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher >>> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner >>> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does >>> not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body >>> of data. ~ John Tukey >>> >>> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >>> >>> >>> Van 14 tot en met 19 december 2017 verhuizen we uit onze vestiging in >>> Brussel naar het Herman Teirlinckgebouw op de site Thurn & Taxis. >>> Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 >>> Brussel. >>> >>> >>> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >>> >>> >>> >>> 2017-09-20 16:16 GMT+02:00 Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com>: >>> > Dear R friends, >>> > >>> > I am currently using Windows 8, 64-bit operating system, x64-based >>> > processor. I have installed R version 3.4.1 "Single Candle". >>> > >>> > Also, I have several packages installed in this path: >>> > >>> > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4 >>> > >>> > Plus some other packages installed in this other path: >>> > >>> > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\R Books >>> > C:\Users\PaulBernal\Desktop\DESTOP FILES\RPackagesNEW >>> > >>> > >>> > And I have installed R in the following path: >>> > >>> > C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.1 >>> > >>> > Whenever I try to install an R package the following error messages are >>> > displayed in the R console: >>> > >>> >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() >>> > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f747105765\readstata13’ >>> > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ >>> > >>> >> utils:::menuInstallLocal() >>> > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f744781797d\Hmisc’ >>> > to >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ >>> > >>> > package ‘readr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > package ‘hms’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f742a8422fe\hms’ >>> > to >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\hms’ >>> > package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7456645222\Hmisc’ >>> > to >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\Hmisc’ >>> > package ‘haven’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f746f04773d\haven’ >>> > to >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\haven’ >>> > package ‘readstata13’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f741507f27\readstata13’ >>> > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readstata13’ >>> > package ‘readxl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f74271b1a7a\readxl’ >>> > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\readxl’ >>> > package ‘RcmdrMisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >>> > Warning: unable to move temporary installation >>> > >>> > ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\file2f7419e243c1\RcmdrMisc’ >>> > to ‘C:\Users\PaulBernal\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\RcmdrMisc’ >>> > >>> > Do I have to put all the packages in the same path where I installed R? >>> > Could this be happening because I have packages installed in several >>> > folders with several paths? Should I consolidate and put all packages >>> > in a >>> > single location? >>> > >>> > Any help will be greatly appreciated, >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > >>> > Paul >>> > >>> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> > >>> > ______________________________________________ >>> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
