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#Written by Chris Brown at Griffith Uni

#Tips for setting up R packages on windows 10

I recommend installing packages to your local drive, not the shared network drive. Though R will default to the network drive (which is "\\\\staff\..."), so some knowledge is required to overcome this.
You could also ask IT to bind a letter to your network drive. I've read that works (see here: https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/353)

Here's the steps I followed to install packages:
Create a shortcut to R on desktop.
Right click it