If you don't want to disturb the existing install of R then you might want to take some effort to bring your library with you and avoid letting your copy of R mess with the default user library. Packrat may help with this?
On October 9, 2018 2:13:40 PM PDT, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Marc, >I do this quite often with Tcl-Tk. All you have to do is make sure >that the PATH contains the correct location for the R executable if >you don't specify it within your program. > >Jim >On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:58 AM Marc Capavanni via R-help ><r-help@r-project.org> wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm currently using R on Windows as part of a piece of software and >when >> I'm providing it to users I have an application that runs the R >> installation file with an INF file containing the following settings >as to >> not disrupt existing installs of R on their system. >> >> [Setup] >> Lang=en >> Dir=.\R_Install\ >> Group=R >> NoIcons=1 >> SetupType=user32 >> Components=main,i386 >> Tasks= >> [R] >> MDISDI=MDI >> HelpStyle=HTML >> >> The aim using this INF file is that the install should not touch the >> registry, or add any icons/shortcuts anywhere. >> >> This R install does not need to do much aside from provide the R >> executables (particularly rscript.exe) for use, so I don't need it to >be on >> the PATH, for it to handle R files being double clicked by the user, >etc. >> >> However, I've recently found that taking the installed R folder and >using >> it on another PC without running the installer *seems* to work just >fine >> (at least for my use case of simply accessible the executables). This >would >> make "installing"/"uninstalling" easier as it would simply be a case >of >> copying the folder, and later on deleting it. >> >> I was wondering if there is anything I'm missing here that would make >this >> not feasible. >> >> Can I safely use an installed R folder, as a base for copying it to >other >> PCs in a portable manner? >> >> Thanks, >> Marc >> >> [[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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.
