| R.home {base} | R Documentation |
Return the R home directory.
R.home(component="home")
component |
As well as "home" which gives the R home
directory, other known values are "bin", "doc",
"etc" and "share" giving the paths to the
corresponding parts of an R installation. |
The R home directory is the top-level directory of the R installation being run.
The R home directory is often referred to as R_HOME,
and is the value of an environment variable of that name in an R
session.
It can be found outside an R session by R RHOME.
A character string giving the R home directory or path to a particular component. Normally the components are all subdirectories of the R home directory, but this may not be the case in a Unix-like installation.