From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jun  8 21:17:52 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:17:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] install.packages() does not warn when 'lib' arg is missing
 on Linux or Windows
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Herve Pages wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Man page for 'install.packages' says that if the 'lib' arg is missing,
> then it "defaults to '.libPaths()[1]' with a warning".
> But, given the 'install.packages' source code, it seems that this warning
> is issued only when 'length(.libPaths()) > 1'.
> So typically, this warning will appear on Mac OS X but not on a Linux
> or Windows systems with default settings.

Yes, and what is the problem with that?

> On my Mac OS X system:
>
>     > .libPaths()
>    [1] "/Users/biocbuild/Library/R/Library"
>    [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.Framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/library"
>
> but on my Linux system:
>
>     > .libPaths()
>    [1] "/home/hpages/arch/x86_64/R-2.3.1/library"
>
> I'm using R-2.3.1 on both systems.
> Best,
>
>
> H.
>
>

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[Rd] install.packages() does not warn when 'lib' arg is missing on Linux or Windows
Prof Brian Ripley