Hi, 2017-07-05 7:07 GMT+02:00 杨 岭 <kaji...@hotmail.com>: > > Hello, > > > In the past, R was always OK. Today, I updated R from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 from cran mirrors. Updating was OK, but when I started R 3.4.1, It told me it couldn't find libraries. I installed libraries in /home/<users>/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/. Now, if I wanna install packages in 3.4.1, the suggested default path is 'NA' !?!?
A quick solution is to add: R_LIBS_USER=~/R/%p-library/%v to your ~/.Renviron file (usually /home/your_user/.Renviron), as suggested by https://mobile.twitter.com/henrikbengtsson/status/882386074839924736 More info is given at [1]. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2017-July/002727.html From what I can understand in [1] Dirk Eddelbuettel, the Debian Maintainer, defends that the default should be to have a shared library of packages among all users rather than letting each user have its own packages in their home directory. This seems to be the default approach in other Debian packages (e.g. `pip install` uses /usr/local/). He believes it should be the default approach for R as well. However it seems he did not consider the possibility that the shared library may not be writeable. In [1] he proposed to add as a fall-back the local home directory, and I hope he chooses to go that path in the next package version. I don't think that leaving current users in a situation where they can't continue installing packages (without additional actions they may not know about) and in a situation where all their packages have "disappeared" was intended. Personally, I prefer to have the packages in my home directory, to prevent other users inadvertently updating the packages I want to use, but I understand that my use case may not be the default one. I believe that the current situation is the result of a bug that hopefully will be fixed in future package versions. Best, Sergio > > > I reinstalled R 3.4.0. All is OK. Please help! > > > Ling > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
