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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 30.10.2012 15:01, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>> * 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.
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>> 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().
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> 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)

Yes, but "sets" is not there.

Uwe

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> Hadley
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