From jeroenooms at gmail.com  Wed Jul 20 10:26:19 2016
From: jeroenooms at gmail.com (Jeroen Ooms)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:26:19 +0200
Subject: [Rd] package installation fails when symlink of same name exists
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
> R fails to install a package from source over a pre-existing package
> when the path to that package is a symlink, rather than a directory.
> ...
> I don't think anyone's reported this being an issue before

I ran into this as well a while back:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16725



[Rd] package installation fails when symlink of same name exists
Jeroen Ooms