How do you change library location in R? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I'm late to the party but I encountered the same thing when I tried to get fancy and move my library and then had files being saved to a folder that was outdated:

.libloc <<- "C:/Program Files/rest_of_your_Library_FileName"

One other point to mention is that for Windows Computers, if you copy the address from Windows Explorer, you have to manually change the '\' to a '/' for the directory to be recognized.

Answer 2

This post is just to mention an additional option. In case you need to set custom R libs in your Linux shell script you may easily do so by

export R_LIBS="~/R/lib"

See R admin guide on complete list of options.

Answer 3

I've used this successfully inside R script:

library("reshape2",lib.loc="/path/to/R-packages/")

useful if for whatever reason libraries are in more than one place.

Answer 4

You can edit Rprofile in the base library (in 'C:/Program Files/R.Files/library/base/R' by default) to include code to be run on startup. Append

########        User code        ########
.libPaths('C:/my/dir')

to Rprofile using any text editor (like Notepad) to cause R to add 'C:/my/dir' to the list of libraries it knows about.

(Notepad can't save to Program Files, so save your edited Rprofile somewhere else and then copy it in using Windows Explorer.)