Where does R store packages?

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The install.packages command looks through the .libPaths variable. Here’s what mine defaults to on OSX:

> .libPaths()
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

I don’t install packages there by default, I prefer to have them installed in my home directory. In my .Rprofile, I have this line:

.libPaths( "/Users/tex/lib/R" )

This adds the directory “/Users/tex/lib/R” to the front of the .libPaths variable.

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