Version 3.4.1-2 of the r-base-core package reverts to the old behaviour. Strictly personally speaking, I find that somewhat distateful -- but it is the upstream default. I now set this in ~/.Renviron :
## Override possible ~/R/@p/@v directory R_LIBS_USER="" and on the machines at work I may just do what I did before edit /etc/R/Renviron or try the above via /etc/R/Renviron.site. Thanks to everybody who chimed in, especially those who managed to stay calm. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian