How to find the location of installed packages in R in windows operating system?


To find the location of installed packages in R in windows operating system, we can use the command mentioned below −

.libPaths()

This will return the location of installed packages in the first line and the program files in the second line.

Use the below mentioned code to find the location of installed packages in windows operating system −

.libPaths()

Output

If you execute the given snippet, it generates the following Output −

[1] "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"
[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.0.4/library"

Use the below mentioned code to find the location of installed packages in windows operating system −

installed.packages()[1:20,]

Output

If you execute all the above given snippets as a single program, it generates the following Output −

            Package                    LibPath                          Version
abind      "abind"       "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.4-5"
ade4       "ade4"        "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.7-15"
ash        "ash"         "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.0-15"
askpass    "askpass"     "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.1"
assertthat "assertthat"  "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "0.2.1"
backports  "backports"   "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.1.7"
base64enc  "base64enc"   "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "0.1-3"
BH         "BH"          "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.72.0-3"
bit        "bit"         "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "4.0.4"
bit64      "bit64"       "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "4.0.5"
bitops     "bitops"      "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.0-6"
blob       "blob"        "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.2.1"
bmp        "bmp"         "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "0.3"
broom      "broom"       "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "0.7.3"
BSDA       "BSDA"        "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.2.0"
callr      "callr"       "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "3.4.3"
car        "car"         "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "3.0-10"
carData    "carData"     "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "3.0-4"
caret      "caret"       "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "6.0-86"
caTools    "caTools"     "C:/Users/Nizam/Documents/R/win-library/4.0"  "1.18.0"

Updated on: 03-Nov-2021

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