>>>>> Ben Bolker
>>>>> on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:25:33 -0400 writes:
> Hmm, looks platform-specific. Under Linux both RStudio
> and external R console return
> a0b52513622c41c11e3ef57c7a485767
> for digest::digest(install.packages)
Well, platform-specific maybe, notably probably the *RStudio*-version
matters (for once).
One one of our public compute-machines running Linux Fedora 38
(I don't have RStudio installed on my desktop as I loathe it
badly to see RStudio start up when I click at an *R script in
the OS gui file browser ... !:!P:!)(*&))
I definitely see
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 4.3.3 Patched (2024-02-29
r86162)"> RStudio.Version()$version
[1] ?2023.12.1.402?> install.packages
function (...)
.rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...)
<environment: 0x55f4e5d82948>>
No need for any hashes to see that install.packages is not the
one from R.
---
Concluding from your, Ben's, finding I'd guess that Posit
finally decided to move away from this very unfriendly idea of
sneakily replacing a base R function ?
That would actually give raise to some applause..
Martin
> On 2024-03-20 1:20 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> 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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