On 8 February 2012 at 19:26, Uwe Ligges wrote: | | | On 07.02.2012 19:13, Hadley Wickham wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > Am I using the correct syntax to set a custom R_LIBS when running R | > CMD INSTALL from the command line? | > | > I get: | > | > R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/ | > # Desktop : R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/ | > # * installing to library ‘/Users/hadley/R’ | > # ERROR: dependency ‘ascii’ is not available for package ‘rapport’ | | | I wonder it works that far. It won't for me on Windows nor Linux, | because system2 passes the whole thing shQuoted to the shell. Hence it | is highly shell dependent what happens with the ill formed command. | | Whay not specify --library= in R CMD INSTALL if you are calling it | programatically from R anyway?
AFAICT Hadley is concerned about a library _source_ directory (for something the package under development needs to run / load) rather than a _destination_. Dirk | Uwe | | > But: | > | > ls /Users/hadley/R-dev/ | > # HandyStuff animation biOps mcmcTools mvbutils quantreg testthat | > # SparseM ascii ggplot2 mturkr nstest scales whisker | > | > (I'm actually running this from inside R using system2, but I think | > this is the essence of my misunderstanding) | > | > Hadley | > | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
