RStudio can't find my library on startup

Question

A couple weeks ago I asked this question on the RStudio support forums, but it hasn\'t been addressed there, so I\'m trying here.

I\'m using RStudio 0.97.248 (curren

Answer 1

I decided to start clean, I re-installed both R and RStudio and deleted my old library.

A risky option is running R (or RStudio) as an administrator---this allowed me to install into the default library, which avoids the problems of using a separate library.

In newer versions of RStudio I've had no problems using a separate library, specifying the site library in my Rprofile.site file.