From h.wickham at gmail.com  Tue Oct 30 15:05:57 2012
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:05:57 -0500
Subject: [Rd] install.packages() fails if .libPaths() set
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>> I'm not sure I follow. I thought install.packages() installs into the
>> first element of .libPaths(), and indeed I get this message:
>>
>> Installing package into ?/Users/hadley/Desktop/test?
>> (as ?lib? is unspecified)
>
> Yes, but "sets" is not there.

I'm trying to understand why it's not there - if install.packages()
installs dependent packages does it put them somewhere else?

Hadley

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[Rd] install.packages() fails if .libPaths() set
Hadley Wickham