Thank you for your help, Dirk! This cleared it up! Winfried Am So., 6. Jan. 2019 um 23:16 Uhr schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org >:
> > On 6 January 2019 at 23:03, Winfried Moser wrote: > | dear dirk, > | > | i am following up on our thread on r-help-mailinglist. you advised me to > | bring it over here. > | > | when installing packages from within R, they usually go to a directory > | defined in R_LIBS_USER, which i have it set in .Renviron. > > That is _you_ as the user installing _locally compiled packages_. For those > you can alter where they as _you do it locally_. Your command, your > control. > > | when installing packages via sudo apt install r-cran-.., they go to > | /usr/lib/R/site-library. > > Those are _distribution-provided binaries following distribution policy_. > All > Debian (and Ubuntu) .deb package install below /usr. They are _prebuilt_ > and > cannot be altered locally. Also, there is a long tome describing > distribution policy. > > | is there a possibility to have packages installed to the R_LIBS-USER > | directory by using the second possibility? > > No. Because they come already prebuilt. > > But if you don't like those, you don't install those. You can always pick > locally installed from source package from CRAN. Your choice, your work. > You > are not forced to use r-cran-* binaries. > > | dirk, you pointed me to the comments in Renviron.site: > | i tried to set R_LIBS_USER in Renviron.site > | i tried to set R_LIBS in Renviron.site > | i tried to set R_LIBS in .Renviron.site > | > | but sudo apt install r-cran... still installs to /usr/lib/R/site-library > | > | can this be changed or is it fixed? > > I fear you were under a somewhat fundamental misunderstanding and I hope > this > cleared it up a little. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
