[ESS] Ess does not find path to user packages

[Vincent Goulet]

I'm with Fer here. I'm afraid I don't see the point in telling ESS about personal libraries. This thread taught me it is possible in the first place, even after 20+ years using ESS. ;-)

The important thing appears to tell R about personal libraries, so that what works inside Emacs+ESS will also work elsewhere. 
Honest question: what do you guys use ess-r-package-library-paths for?

v.

Vincent Goulet
Professeur titulaire
École d'actuariat, Université Laval

> Le 9 févr. 2025 à 16:25, Fer via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> a écrit :
> 
> I think you should tell it directly to R too?
> 
> At least is how I do it, setting it in the .Renviron file with
> 
> R_LIBS_USER='~/myPath'
> 
> cheers
> 
> Fer
> 
> On 2/8/25 07:30, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help wrote:
>> In my init.el file, I have defined a path for personal packages.
>> 
>> (use-package ess
>>   :defer t
>>   :config
>>   (require 'ess-r-mode)
>> ;; many lines omitted
>>   (setq ess-r-package-library-paths
>> (append ess-r-package-library-paths
>> '("/Users/nareshgurbuxani/Documents/statProgram/packages")))
>>   )
>> 
>> In a new emacs session, R does not find this path.  Below is my R session.
>>> install.packages("linmod_1.0.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
>> Warning in install.packages("linmod_1.0.tar.gz", repos = NULL) :
>>   'lib = "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4/Resources/library"' is not writable
>> Would you like to use a personal library instead? (yes/No/cancel) cancel
>> Error in install.packages("linmod_1.0.tar.gz", repos = NULL) :
>>   unable to install packages
>> 
>> Why does R not see the additional path defined above?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Naresh
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