How to create .Renviron file?

Question

I need to use my user defined folder where I stored my packages. I have referred the link given below.

R libraries installation

I have applied the same but i

Answer 1

It may be worth adding that package usethis now offers a series of function facilitating easy editing and opening of R startup files. Family of edit_* functions can be used to conveniently edit desired startup and configuration files.

# Edit .R/Makevars
usethis::edit_r_makevars()

Answer 2

On Mac The Renviron file is located in

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/etc/

Creating a .Renviron file in the User's home directory will not help.

Answer 3

Look at help(Startup) which has an example at the end:

 ## Example ~/.Renviron on Unix
 R_LIBS=~/R/library
 PAGER=/usr/local/bin/less

 ## Example .Renviron on Windows
 R_LIBS=C:/R/library
 MY_TCLTK="c:/Program Files/Tcl/bin"

 ## Example of setting R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES (from R CMD check)
 R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES='utils,grDevices,graphics,stats'
 # this loads the packages in the order given, so they appear on
 # the search path in reverse order.

But note the spelling: Renviron with lower case e. Just use a text editor and edit the file. Also note that R has a variant in one of its system folder etc/ below its RHOME:

edd@bud:~$ R RHOME
/usr/lib/R
edd@bud:~$ cat $(R RHOME)/etc/Renviron.site
##                                              Emacs please make this -*- R -*-
## empty Renviron.site for R on Debian
##
## Copyright (C) 2008 Dirk Eddelbuettel and GPL'ed
##
## see help(Startup) for documentation on ~/.Renviron and Renviron.site

# ## Example ~/.Renviron on Unix
# R_LIBS=~/R/library
# PAGER=/usr/local/bin/less

# ## Example .Renviron on Windows
# R_LIBS=C:/R/library
# MY_TCLTK="c:/Program Files/Tcl/bin"

# ## Example of setting R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES (from R CMD check)
# R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES='utils,grDevices,graphics,stats'
# # this loads the packages in the order given, so they appear on
# # the search path in reverse order.
edd@bud:~$ 

Hm. Looks like I wrote that for the Debian package and it does always exist. You can still copy it.

Answer 4

On mac (or linux)

Open the terminal and type

touch $HOME/.Renviron

To open the file you just created, navigate through finder to /Users/<your-user-name>/.Renviron, or simply open the terminal and type

open $HOME/.Renviron

On windows

Click on start and open powershell. Copy this code into powershell

Add-Content c:\Users\$env:USERNAME\Documents\.Renviron "TEST_VARIABLE_1=my_username"
Add-Content c:\Users\$env:USERNAME\Documents\.Renviron "TEST_VARIABLE_2=123"

You'll now have a file called .Renviron located in the Documents folder. Close and reopen RStudio. Then run Sys.getenv('TEST_VARIABLE_1') to access the variable in R (obviously that works for any other environment variables you set as well).