[R] howto test a package without installation

[Jeff Newmiller]

I don't believe you can. However, you need not install it into a system-wide library directory... your personal library (e.g. /home/jonas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14) should be sufficient.
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Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>how can i play around with my first selfwritten package [*]
>without to install it to my debian system?
>
>I think of something like doing this:
>
>/tmp/$ R
>R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
>> library(/tmp/sitools)
>
>3 * kilo
>[1] 3000
>
>
>[*] https://github.com/jonasstein/sitools
>
>-- 
>Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>
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