On 20/03/2024 1:07 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:> On 20/03/2024 12:37 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
>> Ivan, can you give more detail on this? I've heard this issue
>> mentioned, but when I open RStudio and run
find("install.packages") it
>> returns "utils::install.packages", and running dump() from
within
>> RStudio console and from an external "R --vanilla" gives
identical results.
>>
>> I thought at one point this might only refer to the GUI
>> package-installation interface, but you seem to be saying it's the
>> install.packages() function as well.
>>
>> Running an up-to-date RStudio on Linux, FWIW -- maybe weirdness
only
>> happens on other OSs?
>
> On MacOS, I see this:
>
> > install.packages
> function (...)
> .rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...)
> <environment: 0x7fa7c72a6268>
>
> I get the same results as you from find(). I'm not sure what RStudio
is
> doing to give a different value for the function than what find() sees.
Turns out that RStudio replaces the install.packages object in the utils
package.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Ben Bolker
>>
>> On 2024-03-20 12:13 p.m., Ivan Krylov via R-help wrote:
>>> ? Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:02:27 +0000
>>> Jorgen Harmse via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> ?????:
>>>
>>>>> install.packages(tar,type='source',repos=NULL)
>>>>
>>>> Error in library(jhBase) : there is no package called ?jhBase?
>>>>
>>>> Execution halted
>>>>
>>>> Warning in install.packages(tar, type = "source",
repos = NULL) :
>>>>
>>>> installation of package
>>>>
?/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz?
>>>> had non-zero exit status
>>>
>>> Using RStudio? It happens to override install.packages with a
function
>>> that doesn't quite handle file paths. Try
utils::install.packages(tar,
>>> type = "source", repos = NULL).
>>>
>>
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