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Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname> So, how do you go about this anyway? And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'? ------- $ R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0

Hi, I am using R on Debian Linux. I tried to install packages from inside R by calling function install.packages(), e.g., install.packages("tree"). The packages were installed successfully. However, I couldn't find the "src" subdirectory under the /usr/lib/R/library/tree directory,, which is supposed to contain the C, C++ and FORTRAIN source files, according to the