Your are looking for the environment variable R_LIBS, which allows local installation of packages. See "R Installation and Administration" and "An Introduction to R", which you find by help.start(). Note that R_LIBS can be set by the shell script or ~/Renviron as said in the former document.
Cheers Henrik Bengtsson Mathematical Statistics, Lund University > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert King > Sent: den 18 mars 2003 17:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] Package installation when $RHOME is not writable (win) > > > I'm using R in a student lab with machines running win XP. > $RHOME is not writable by the students. How do I set this up > so that they can install packages? > > Thanks, > Robert. > ---- > Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical > Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia Room V133 ph > +61 2 4921 5548 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo> /r-help > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help