On 5/17/2006 5:45 PM, tdhock at OCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote:> Hello,
>
> I've been using R for about 3 years now and I'm pretty sure this is
a bug.
> I'm using R 2.2.0.
The latest release is 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 has been announced. Please try
R-patched (which will become 2.3.1 in a couple of weeks), and see if you
still have this problem.
Duncan Murdoch>
> The way R is set up to get packages from CRAN using install.packages is
> really convenient --- if you are installing to your system's main
package
> directory. However, I observe the following problem:
>
> I want package X but it requires package Y. Further, I have neither
> package right now. And, I want to install both of them to my homedir (say
> at ~/mylib) rather than the main R package directory. What I would want to
> do then is:
>
>> install.packages('X',lib='~/mylib',dependencies=TRUE)
>
> However, this doesn't work. It does notice that X depends on Y and so
it
> downloads Y first, but it downloads Y to the wrong directory!! It should
> download both to ~/mylib in my opinion!!!
>
> Sincerely,
> Toby Dylan Hocking
> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock
>
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