[Rd] R_LIBS_USER on Ubuntu 16.04

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Users without privileges to fix this themselves can add the following
(verbatim) to their ~/.Renviron:

R_LIBS_USER=~/R/%p-library/%v

No need to update when R is updated. For details on the above format,
see help(".libPaths").

/Henrik

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 3 July 2017 at 15:35, Stefan Lüdtke wrote:
> | the recent update to R-3.4.1 kind of screwed the path to the libraries
> | installed on a user basis.
> |
> | The previous version of the file /etc/R/Renviron had the following line
> | activated:
> |
> | R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4'}
> |
> | This one is commented in the current one which means  that the path to the
> | libraries installed previously is not found. I never touched this file before.
> |
> | Was that on purpose or did that happen accidentally?
>
> i)   Wrong venue. Discussion of this should be on r-sig-debian.
>
> ii)  On purpose. I have explained the rationale there (ie r-sig-debian) as
>      well as this Debian bug report:  https://bugs.debian.org/866768
>
> iii) Easiest fix: Remove _one_ character, the '#' on line 43 of file
>      /etc/R/Renviron
>
> iv)  "Correct" fix is the determine a use policy for directory
>      /usr/local/lib/R/site-library -- at work several of us are in a shared
>      group and you can use 'staff' or 'adm'.  On my laptop I just give the
>      directory my own group.
>
> Dirk, at DSC preceding useR! 2017
>
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