Works for me. Which shell are you using? Are you setting .libPaths elsewhere?
Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ R_LIBS=~/tmp Rscript -e '.libPaths()' [1] "/Users/pd/tmp" [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library" Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ export R_LIBS=~/tmp Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:F pd$ Rscript -e '.libPaths()' [1] "/Users/pd/tmp" [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library" -pd > On 20 Feb 2016, at 10:00 , Dario Strbenac <dstr7...@uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote: > > Good day, > > I believe from the documentation that folders in R_LIBS should appear in the > output of .libPaths, but they do not. The documentation contains "The library > search path is initialized at startup from the environment variable R_LIBS > ..." > > However, > > $ export R_LIBS=/users/stgrad/dario/tmp/ > $ Rscript -e ".libPaths()" > [1] "/dskh/nobackup/biostat/Bioconductor" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > > [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/library" > > Is there some other crucial information which I have missed ? > > -------------------------------------- > Dario Strbenac > PhD Student > University of Sydney > Camperdown NSW 2050 > Australia > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel