Jochen Knaus
2010-Apr-27 14:32 UTC
[R] Question according on new package installation test in R 2.11
Hi all, the package load test in R 2.11.0 is nice, but not disablable with function install.packages(). This is a problem for me, as I install many (>100) global packages with an R script as root in a multiuser environment for each new R version on the machines in our institute. As root is not allowed to start several services, so several packages cannot be loaded correctly as root itself (e.g. "Rmpi" installs correctly, but cannot be loaded as root, as root is not allowed to start a cluster). This would not be dramatic if there would not been a "00LOCK" folder left in the site-dir afterwards preventing further packages to install and has to be removed manually. On the command line the "R CMD INSTALL" script has an option "--no-test-load", which disables the feature of testing (but is using the internal function "tools:::.install_packages" for installing packages). It seems this behavior is not accessible through the function "install.packages", as this functions API didn't change and in the depending R source nothing is found. Is there a way to disable the new load-test with an "install.packages" call or another way around the problem? Or a method which does at least not produce that 00LOCK file? Thanks, Jo
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