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2016 Jul 20
2
package installation fails when symlink of same name exists
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>> I don't think anyone's reported this being an issue before
> I ran into this as well a while back:
> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16725
I've now at least "acknowledged" that bug report.
and have looked into changing the is_subdir() function so it
returns TRUE in the case of a symlink [on those platforms where
Sys.readlink() "works", i.e., supposedly not on Windows; however
that maybe sufficient to close that bug report and also Kevin's
issue, right ?]
However, Kevin, in his posting, continues
> I gue...
2016 Jul 20
0
package installation fails when symlink of same name exists
...hink anyone's reported this being an issue before
>
> > I ran into this as well a while back:
> > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16725
>
> I've now at least "acknowledged" that bug report.
> and have looked into changing the is_subdir() function so it
> returns TRUE in the case of a symlink [on those platforms where
> Sys.readlink() "works", i.e., supposedly not on Windows; however
> that maybe sufficient to close that bug report and also Kevin's
> issue, right ?]
>
> However, Kevin, in his postin...
2016 Jul 19
2
package installation fails when symlink of same name exists
R fails to install a package from source over a pre-existing package
when the path to that package is a symlink, rather than a directory. A
reproducible example to illustrate (using MASS as an example):
# create a temporary R library in tempdir
library <- tempfile()
if (!dir.exists(library)) dir.create(library)
# symlink MASS from system library to temporary library
MASS