> | > The documentation does not list a search behaviour for bare library > | > names on non-Windows systems. So completely ignoring the system library > | > paths is kind of weird. > | > | I can see that it looks weird - but is it a bug? > > Exactly. It has been like that since the 1990s
Mhm, I am not sure I am seeing an argument here :) > when R's packaging system was > set up. We have hundreds of per package shared libraries. Even the first > one I packaged for Debian (r-cran-rodbc, in 2003 if memory serves) used > that. > > "A feature not a bug" :) Or a missing feature, given that it was proposed to solve a problem... Johannes
