This practice is not portable, as not everyone's default file creation
permissions allow others to read those files, so putting them outside your home
directory isn't necessarily helpful. It is much better to use the default user
library within your home directory as suggested by the R install p
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
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 sim
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 Var
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 additio
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 7:26 AM, Paul Bernal wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Is it normal for R to store installed packages in paths like the following?
>
> C:\Users\PaulBernal\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgXA5VS\downloaded_packages
Yes. Packages are first built or unpacked in a temporary directory and then
Dear all,
Is it normal for R to store installed packages in paths like the following?
C:\Users\PaulBernal\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgXA5VS\downloaded_packages
Regards,
Paul
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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
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