How do you change library location in R

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Due to the new R 2 11 release  I want to implement Dirk s suggestion here   So for that I am asking - How can I  permanently  change R s library path    The best solution would be one that can be run from within R

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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.

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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the same thing when I tried to get fancy and move my library and then had files being saved to a folder that was outdated    libloc  lt  lt -  C  Program Files rest of your Library FileName    One other point to mention is that for Windows Computers  if you copy the address from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

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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

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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

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