[R] .Renviron for multiple hardwares...

[Henrik Bengtsson]

The script .Rprofile evaluates R code on startup.  You could use that
to test for various environment variables.  Alternatively, use Unix
shell scripts to set system environment variables to be used in a
generic .Renviron.  See help(Startup) for more details.

/Henrik

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Greenberg
<greenberg at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Our lab has a lot of different unix boxes, with different hardware, and I'm
> assuming (perhaps wrongly) that by setting a per-user package installation
> directory, the packages will only work on one type of hardware.  Our systems
> are all set up to share the same home directory (and, thus, the same
> .Renviron file) -- so, is there a way to set, in the .Renviron file,
> per-computer or per-hardware settings?  The idea is to have a different
> package installation directory for each computer (e.g.
> "~/R/computer1/packages" and "~/R/computer2/packages".
>
> Thoughts?  Ideas?  Thanks!
>
> --j
>
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