What field is httr in the DESCRIPTION? Hadley On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. <thern...@mayo.edu> wrote: > I have a local library 'dart' that imports "httr". It has routines that > access central patient data such as birth date, so it is heavily used > locally but of no interest to anyone else. > > The httr library (and 300 others) are in a shared directory, referenced by > everyone in the biostatistics group via adding this location to the > .libPaths in their default .Rprofile. (Actually, their .Rprofile starts by > running material from a central one, the libPaths is there). > > When I run R (3.2.0) all is fine, but R CMD build fails with the text below > > * creating vignettes ... ERROR > Error: processing vignette 'dart.Rnw' failed with diagnostics: > chunk 2 (label = auth1) > Error : package ‘httr’ required by ‘dart’ could not be found > Execution halted > > > If I add the requiste directory to my R_LIBS_USER environment variable then > all is fine. However, that's a nuisance since the location changes over > time (e.g. R releases). The system admins have a whole process that keeps > .bashrc, .Rprofle and etc dot references up to date. Plugging into this is > why we use .Rprofile. They are quite willing to make select changes in the > central file, but with >1000 users any suggested changes in the overall > process do not get a warm welcome. > > Any ideas? There is no mention in the Writing R Extentions manual that it > ignores the Rprofile file. If "suck it up and use R_LIBS_USER" is the > answer, well, there are only a few who build packages. > > PS, I can't use RHOME:/etc/Rprofile.site since the biostat group is not the > only set of R users. Some other groups, for instance, cannot even see our > central area. > > Terry T. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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