[Rd] install.packages() fails if .libPaths() set

[Hadley Wickham]

>> * installing *source* package ‘relations’ ...
>> ...
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> *** arch - i386
>> Error : package ‘sets’ required by ‘relations’ could not be found
>> Error: loading failed
>> Execution halted
>> *** arch - x86_64
>> Error : package ‘sets’ required by ‘relations’ could not be found
>> Error: loading failed
>> Execution halted
>> ERROR: loading failed for ‘i386’, ‘x86_64’
>>
>> If I don't set .libPaths() it installs without error.
>
>
> Yes, since your package set is installed in a library that is not "test".
> And you have omitted that library from the search path by changing
> .libPaths().

I'm not sure I follow. I thought install.packages() installs into the
first element of .libPaths(), and indeed I get this message:

Installing package into ‘/Users/hadley/Desktop/test’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

Hadley


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