R - Delete a library path to keep the default one

Asked Aug 03 '16 at 22:42

Active Aug 03 '16 at 23:00

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I don't know when this happened, but I used to have only one library path where I installed my packages. But now it appears I have 2 of them and I want to get rid of the new one, since all packages I install go directly to that new library.

.libPaths()
[1] "/Users/myusername/Library/R/3.3/library"                         
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library"

I want to get rid of path [1] and keep the other one. Or at least move path [2] to the default spot.

Btw, I'm running on Mac OSX 10.11.6

edited Aug 03 '16 at 23:00

asked Aug 03 '16 at 22:42

paales01

The user library is added when using `install.packages` for the first time as an user. It has precedence over the system's. – Ricardo Magalhães Cruz Aug 03 '16 at 22:54
@RicardoCruz but this happened sometime after I installed R in this machine. 90% of my packages are in the system's. – paales01 Aug 03 '16 at 23:07
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@RicardoCruz means that, after you installed R originally, you probably followed instructions to install an optional package. This is done using the `install.packages` command from *inside* R. – jcoppens Aug 03 '16 at 23:13
Thanks. Now I get it. – paales01 Aug 04 '16 at 00:15

R - Delete a library path to keep the default one

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