https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/support-for-setting-r-repository-urls-in-databricks/m-p/50304#M573 <P>The documentation for <A href="https://docs.databricks.com/en/sparkr/index.html" target="_self">using R in Databricks</A> states that the session can be configured by modifying the /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site file. This works for most things, however the repository URLs set by the `repos` option is overridden by another script that's loaded from a temporary directory.</P><P>As described in this <A href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/76777228/3803805" target="_self">Stack Overflow answer</A>, this second script&nbsp;<SPAN>/local_disk0/tmp/_CleanRShell.*.r sets the repos using the value of an environment variable&nbsp;DATABRICKS_DEFAULT_R_REPOS. This is useful for configuring custom R repository URLs to be used by default. However, given it isn't documented anywhere, I'm concerned its behaviour may change in the future without notice, or it may be removed completely.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Is this environment variable supported officially? If not, what is the recommended way for changing R repository URLs in Databricks?</SPAN></P> Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:03:59 GMT statijon 2023-11-02T01:03:59Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/support-for-setting-r-repository-urls-in-databricks/m-p/50304#M573 <P>The documentation for <A href="https://docs.databricks.com/en/sparkr/index.html" target="_self">using R in Databricks</A> states that the session can be configured by modifying the /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site file. This works for most things, however the repository URLs set by the `repos` option is overridden by another script that's loaded from a temporary directory.</P><P>As described in this <A href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/76777228/3803805" target="_self">Stack Overflow answer</A>, this second script&nbsp;<SPAN>/local_disk0/tmp/_CleanRShell.*.r sets the repos using the value of an environment variable&nbsp;DATABRICKS_DEFAULT_R_REPOS. This is useful for configuring custom R repository URLs to be used by default. However, given it isn't documented anywhere, I'm concerned its behaviour may change in the future without notice, or it may be removed completely.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Is this environment variable supported officially? If not, what is the recommended way for changing R repository URLs in Databricks?</SPAN></P> Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:03:59 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/support-for-setting-r-repository-urls-in-databricks/m-p/50304#M573 statijon 2023-11-02T01:03:59Z