Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 6/30/05, J. Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...
>> I keep a separate directory ...\R\library for nonstandard packages, >> with environment variable R_LIBS set to the directory name. > > > Do you mean your R_LIBS has two components: one to look in > ..\R\rcurrent\library and a second to look in ..\R\library? What does > it look like exactly? > > When you do install.packages(whatever) does it install to the > ..\R\library rather than ..\R\rcurrent\library ? Also, does > updates.packages() work as expected for you? > My R_LIBS environment variable is just R_LIBS=C:\progs\r\library and within R I see > .libPaths() [1] "C:/progs/r/library" "C:/progs/r/rcurrent/library" i.e., the default library is automatically appended. The help for .libPaths explains this. And yes, install.packages() installs to C:\progs\R\library and update.packages() works as expected. > >>My miktex.ini file specifies ...\R\rcurrent\share\texmf as a place >>to look for input files. > > > I think its necessary to rebuild the name data base in miktex too > initexmf -u > although ignoring that step may work as long as the filenames > have not changed. You are probably correct, though I have not yet encountered any problems that I could attribute to not running initexmf -- no doubt the filenames have not changed recently. > I was hoping to continue using a vanilla > miktex installation as I do now rather than having a custom miktex.ini > file. At any rate my batch file would continue to work even with your setup > so I think I should be ok here. > > >>That should take care of your points 3, 4, and 2, respectively. >>Duncan's suggestion of an R_ENVIRON environment variable (which >>I didn't know about; thanks, Duncan) should take care of point 1. >> >>Jon Hosking > > > It occurs to me in reading this that I could keep the *.site files in > ..\R and then have my miktex update batch file also copy them > to the appropriate etc folder. Thus keeping an R\library folder > and running the batch file after each new installation would > address 1, 2 and 4 even without using the same name for the > rw... folder. This still does not handle the shortcut key which > I would have to handle manually or determine if there is a way > I could also add that to my batch file. > Jon Hosking ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel