From gmbecker at ucdavis.edu  Sat Dec  6 01:23:45 2014
From: gmbecker at ucdavis.edu (Gabriel Becker)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:23:45 -0800
Subject: [Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo
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Can you post exact code, i have not seen this behavior, and I work with
local repositories quite extensively on my current project.

~G

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Renaud Gaujoux <
renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> running install.packages() to install a package from a local repository
> (i.e., starts with file:///) appears to delete the PACKAGES file that is in
> the src/contrib/ directory.
> This happens on a cluster running Scientific Linux release 6.4 (Carbon),
> but not on my Ubuntu local machine.
>
> Subsequent calls to install.packages() complain about src/contrib/PACKAGES
> not existing, although there still is a src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz file.
>
> Is this a know issue?
> Thank you.
>
> Bests,
> Renaud
>
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Gabriel Becker
Graduate Student
Statistics Department
University of California, Davis

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[Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo
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