Re: [R] Add a third .libPath

2020-12-02 Thread Jeff Reichman
esday, December 2, 2020 9:20 AM To: reichm...@sbcglobal.net; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Add a third .libPath You are mixing up two different things. The .libPaths() function returns paths where R searches for R packages. Rtools is not an R package, it is a collection of utilities and support

Re: [R] Add a third .libPath

2020-12-02 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Current versions of Windows support user environment variables also, so having Administrator change the PATH should not be necessary. On December 2, 2020 7:20:16 AM PST, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >You are mixing up two different things. > >The .libPaths() function returns paths where R searches for

Re: [R] Add a third .libPath

2020-12-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
You are mixing up two different things. The .libPaths() function returns paths where R searches for R packages. Rtools is not an R package, it is a collection of utilities and support files to run in Windows. For Rtools to be found, you need to add it to the Windows PATH variable, not to .li

[R] Add a third .libPath

2020-12-02 Thread Jeff Reichman
r-help Forum My employer has not yet approved R/RStudio but has allowed me to run R/RStudio from profile. I need to add RTools but not sure I can run RTools from the same location. So I unzipped Rtools and added the folder to my profile location containing R and RStudio and then modified my