Using if (interactive()) utils::loadhistory(file = "~/.Rhistory")
should solve your problem. The reason is that install.packages() in turn launches a non-interactive child R process that installs the package. When that process loads your startup file, it fails, because that function can only be used in interactive mode. Here's an example: $ Rscript -e "utils::loadhistory()" Error in .External2(C_loadhistory, file) : no history mechanism available /Henrik On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Hugo Raguet <hugo.rag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried installing the 'ks' package from my interactive R session, it > failed with the following > > Erreur dans .External2(C_loadhistory, file) : > aucun mécanisme d'historique des commandes disponible > Calls: <Anonymous> > Exécution arrêtée > > second line is french for "no command history mechanism available", fouth > is "execution stopped". > This does not happen when I comment out the following line from my > .Rprofile: > utils::loadhistory(file = "~/.Rhistory") > > On Stack Overflow, someone else has similar trouble with another package, > which seems to be also related to command history: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18240863/installing-packages-on-r-fails-when-loading-rprofile#18256224 > > Is this a bug in R, or in the concerned packages? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
