R devel - May 2007 - Bug#424696: R CMD INSTALL -l <path> does not create path (PR#9691)

Soeren,

On 16 May 2007 at 23:00, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
| Package: r-base-core
| Version: 2.5.1~20070513-1    [ aka R-patched as of 20070513 ]
| Severity: important
| 
| R CMD INSTALL -l /path/to/lib 
| 
| no longer creates /path/to/lib but assumes it does already exist. This
| is a change in behaviour as it has worked with R 2.4.X 

Let me pass that on to R Bugs then as it is in no way related to any Debian
changes.  

Thanks, Dirk

 
| looking at /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL, the problem seems to be in the block
starting at line 298:
| 
| 
| 
| lib=`tilde_expand "${lib}"`
| if test -z "${lib}"; then
|   lib=`echo "cat('\n~~~', .libPaths()[1], '\n', sep =
'')" | \
|     R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL "${R_EXE}" --no-save --slave | \
|     grep '^~~~' | sed 's/.*~~~//'`
|   message "Installing to library '$lib'"
| else
|   lib0=${lib}
|   cd ${lib}        <-------------- PROBLEM directory must not exist (call
MKDIR_P before ?)
|   lib=`${GETWD}`
|   cd ${startdir}
| fi
| 
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: lenny/sid
|   APT prefers stable
|   APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600,
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
| Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| 
| Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
| ii  atlas3-base [libblas.so.3 3.6.0-20.6     Automatically Tuned Linear
Algebra
| ii  atlas3-sse2 [libblas.so.3 3.6.0-20.6     Automatically Tuned Linear
Algebra
| ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.3-6        high-quality block-sorting file
co
| ii  libc6                     2.5-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii  libgfortran1              4.1.2-7        Runtime library for GNU Fortran
ap
| ii  libice6                   1:1.0.3-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
| ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG
| ii  libpaper-utils            1.1.21         Library for handling paper
charact
| ii  libpcre3                  6.7-1          Perl 5 Compatible Regular
Expressi
| ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
| ii  libreadline5              5.2-2          GNU readline and history
libraries
| ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1      X11 Session Management library
| ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
| ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
| ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
| ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]   1.2-8          Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines
3
| ii  tcl8.4                    8.4.12-1.1     Tcl (the Tool Command Language)
v8
| ii  tk8.4                     8.4.12-1       Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4
-
| ii  unzip                     5.52-9         De-archiver for .zip files
| ii  zip                       2.32-1         Archiver for .zip files
| ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-14     compression library - runtime
| 
| Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
| ii  r-base-dev              2.5.1~20070513-1 GNU R installation of auxiliary
GN
| ii  r-recommended           2.5.1~20070513-1 GNU R collection of recommended
pa
| 
| -- no debconf information
| 

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