Liaw, Andy
2004-Mar-11 21:34 UTC
[Rd] Re: make.search.html() without write permission in R.hom e( ) (PR#6664)
So this is on Windows, then? This is documented somewhere (don't remember): If the package is not located under $R_HOME/library, then the html help will not be able to find it. Don't think there's a known work-around. Cheers, Andy> From: byandell@wisc.edu > > I did that. In fact the default uses .libPaths()[1], which I > have set to > "P:/stat/yandell/public/statgen/R" > The package installs fine. However, the HTML search is not > done properly. > Again, the break occurred after installation of the package, when > make.search.html() was invoked. > Brian > > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > Brian Yandell <byandell@wisc.edu> writes: > > > > > Folks, > > > I am working on a Windows system which is part of the UW-Madison > > > statistics LAN. R is maintained on a file system to which > I cannot write. > > > I tried installing a package and got the following interplay: > > > > Set the lib argument to install.packages to a directory in which you > > do have write permissions. From ?install.packages > > ... > > install.packages(pkgs, lib, CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), > > contriburl = contrib.url(CRAN), > > method, available = NULL, destdir = NULL, > > installWithVers = FALSE) > > ... > > > > lib,instlib: character string giving the library directory where to > > install the packages. > > > > > > > > > > install.packages(choose.files('',filters=Filters[c('zip','All'),]), > > > .libPaths()[1], CRAN = NULL) > > > updating HTML package descriptions > > > Error in file(f.tg, open = "w") : unable to open connection > > > In addition: Warning messages: > > > 1: cannot update HTML package index in: > make.packages.html(lib.loc) > > > 2: cannot open file > `W:\unsup\R\i386_win2k/doc/html/search/index.txt' > > > > link.html.help() > > > Error in file(f.tg, open = "w") : unable to open connection > > > In addition: Warning messages: > > > 1: cannot update HTML package index in: > make.packages.html(lib.loc) > > > 2: cannot open file > `W:\unsup\R\i386_win2k/doc/html/search/index.txt' > > > > .libPaths() > > > [1] "P:/stat/yandell/public/statgen/R" > "W:/unsup/R/i386_win2k/library" > > > > Sys.getenv("R_LIBS") > > > R_LIBS > > > "P:\\stat\\yandell\\public\\statgen\\R" > > > > > > This broke in make.search.html(), where it tried to > overwrite the search > > > file > > > W:\unsup\R\i386_win2k/doc/html/search/index.txt > > > which was generated from > > > file.path(R.home(), "doc/html/search/index.txt") > > > > > > My library loaded fine, and the flat file help works > fine, but there are > > > no HTML info on my local libraryies in the R_LIBS area. I > have no idea how > > > hardwired .../search/index.txt is into various R routines. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Brian > > > > -- > > Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu > > Statistics Department 608/262-2598 > > University of Wisconsin - Madison > http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}
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