Setting Up R Preferences with .Rprofile¶

For your convenience, a sample ~/.Rprofile example file is provided that can be downloaded to your cluster account and renamed into ~/.Rprofile (or appended to one). Follow these steps to download our recommended ~/.Rprofile example and copy it into place:

1 2	`curl -#LO https://docs.rcac.purdue.edu/assets/scripts/userguides/Rprofile_example mv -ib Rprofile_example ~/.Rprofile`

The above installation step needs to be done only once on Gilbreth. Now load the R module and run R:

1 2	`module load r/4.4.1 R`

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.libPaths()
[1] "/home/username/R/hostname/4.1.2-gcc-6.3.0-ymdumss"
[2] "/apps/spack/hostname/apps/r/4.1.2-gcc-6.3.0-ymdumss/rlib/R/library"

.libPaths() should output something similar to above if it is set up correctly.

You are now ready to install R packages into the dedicated directory /home/username/R/hostname/4.1.2-gcc-6.3.0-ymdumss.