[ESS] R_LIBS_USER Setting

[Bill Denney]

Thanks for the pointer.  My home folder only has ascii characters, but 
on additional investigation, I could fix my issue by a combination of 
upgrading to the newest RStudio and manually setting R_LIBS_USER.

Thanks,

Bill


On 5/17/2016 4:44 PM, Vincent Goulet wrote:
> I set R_LIBS_USER in the ~/.Renviron file. This works flawlessly with ESS and I guess Rgui and RStudio should honour this setting too.
>
> The problem I've seen in RStudio on Windows is if the user's home folder (~/) contains non-ascii (e.g. accented) letters, then the path name gets mangled and you get stuck in a catch-22 where it's impossible to install a package.
>
> HTH
>
> v.
>
>> Le 17 mai 2016 à 10:04, Bill Denney <bill using denney.ws> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use a mixture of ESS, Rgui, and RStudio for my R development in Windows 10.  When I install packages to the user local library in ESS, it installs to the R_LIBS_USER directory.  Within ESS, this works well.  When I switch to one of the other environments (Rgui or RStudio), the environmental variable isn't set.
>>
>> I never manually set R_LIBS_USER.  So, how does it get permanently set in ESS but not found in either Rgui or RStudio? And, is this something that I need to fix locally or is it a bug in ESS?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>>
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