On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:57 PM Gabriel Becker wrote:
> Thanks for being interested in making R better. Its great to see engagement
> from a new "virtual face", so to speak. That said, without speaking for
> R-core, my experience is that the R-project and R-core team place a very high
> premium
Small but crucial typo correction:
Perhaps this could be put on the list of possible changes for R 5.0, to be
> bundled with other as-yet undecided breaking changes, members of R-core
> feel the same way.
>
*if* members of R-core feel the same way.
~G
>
> Best,
> ~G
>
>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>>
Felipe,
Thanks for being interested in making R better. Its great to see engagement
from a new "virtual face", so to speak. That said, without speaking for
R-core, my experience is that the R-project and R-core team place a very
high premium on backwards compatibility. They will make breaking chan
Hi,
Pinging.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:17 PM Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 4:08 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 16 March 2023 at 13:39, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > | R should do the same: it should install packages to somewhere inside
> > | ~/.local by default.
> > rath
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:39 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>
> On 16 March 2023 at 17:15, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> | We're all starting out with a fresh R_LIBS_USER once a year when a new
> | minor version of R is released,
>
> Maybe not "we all". I don't, and I know other Linux users who don't f
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 4:08 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>
> On 16 March 2023 at 13:39, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> | I see R by default installs packages in ~/R. I know I can change the
> | default directory with R_LIBS_USER, but software shouldn't be
> | polluting the home directory.
> |
> | For
On 16 March 2023 at 17:15, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
| We're all starting out with a fresh R_LIBS_USER once a year when a new
| minor version of R is released,
Maybe not "we all". I don't, and I know other Linux users who don't force a
rebuild unless needed (as with R 3.6.* -> R 4.0.0).
R signals
> Your best bet really to govern your .libPaths from your Rprofile.site and
Renviron.site ...
To do this for any version of R, one can add:
R_LIBS_USER=~/.local/share/R/%p-library/%v
to ~/.Renviron or the Renviron.site file. This automatically expands
to the platform and R x.y version early on w
On 16 March 2023 at 13:39, Felipe Contreras wrote:
| I see R by default installs packages in ~/R. I know I can change the
| default directory with R_LIBS_USER, but software shouldn't be
| polluting the home directory.
|
| For example both python and node install packages to ~/.local/lib,
| ruby
