loading modules from multiple directories

[Steve Cumming]

Is there any ability to specify a list of search paths for modules? 

[Alex Chubaty]

Currently, no. My preferred solution on macOS/Ilnux is to set up symlinks to the modules in other directories: ln -s [target] [link]

So in your modules/ directory you'd have:

modules/

|_ module1/

|_ module2/

|_ module3/ --> /path/to/somewhere/module3

|_ module3/ --> /path/to/somewhere/else/module4

Alex

[Steve Cumming]

Thanks, that would work. I think it would not be difficult to implement one of the standard search path functionalities; pretty sure R must have low-level support for that already; although I can there would be some complexity, as each module internally would need to know where it came from.  I can see this would not be high on your list of priorities.