From gilb@home.com  Wed Oct 27 21:52:38 1999
From: gilb@home.com (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:52:38 -0400
Subject: install.packages() update.packages()
Message-ID: <38176616.4B959498@home.com>

WOW neat! but...

1/ I tried install.packages("tseries", lib) on a machine which didn't
have a fortran compiler and I happened to notice the error message fly
by, but  install.packages() mostly gave the appearance that everything
suceeded, and the library was available. Is there a way to give a more
obvious report (maybe even remove the library) in the event of failure.
(It does work great on my other  machine with g77.)

2/ Wishlist: Could lib have a default like R_HOME/library (if I own it)
and otherwise something like  ~/Rlibs?

Paul Gilbert



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install.packages() update.packages()
Paul Gilbert