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...th spaces? Related (but moderately more advanced), why does R still install "everything" under one (versioned) directory so that uninformed users on upgrade "miss" all previously installed packages? Why not (with space for exposition here, imagine s/ // everywhere below) $SOMEROOTDIR / R / R-a.b.c/ # before R-a.b.d/ # d > c, here site-library/ # with .libPaths having this preset? I don't really care as I manage to work mostly / entirely on another OS, but I just don't understand...

...rately more advanced), why does R still install "everything" > under one (versioned) directory so that uninformed users on upgrade "miss" > all previously installed packages? > > Why not (with space for exposition here, imagine s/ // everywhere below) > > $SOMEROOTDIR / R / > R-a.b.c/ # before > R-a.b.d/ # d > c, here > site-library/ # with .libPaths having this preset? > > I don't really care as I manage to work mostly / entirely on another OS, but &...

This has now been mostly fixed in R-devel. What remains to be resolved is that some packages with custom make files cannot be installed from source (when R is installed into a directory with space in its name and short file names are not available) Tomas On 10/17/2017 10:37 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote: > Hi Zach, > > thanks for the report, I can reproduce the problem and confirm it is

...hy does R still install "everything" >> under one (versioned) directory so that uninformed users on upgrade "miss" >> all previously installed packages? >> >> Why not (with space for exposition here, imagine s/ // everywhere below) >> >> $SOMEROOTDIR / R / >> R-a.b.c/ # before >> R-a.b.d/ # d > c, here >> site-library/ # with .libPaths having this preset? >> >> I don't really care as I manage to work mostly / entirely...