On 4/20/19 10:39 PM, Pages, Herve wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to update packages today on one of our MacOS servers, and
got this:
> update.packages(ask=FALSE)
There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
gsl 1.9-10.3 2.1-6 TRUE
Do you want to install from sources the package which needs
compilation? (Yes/no/cancel)
So it looks like 'ask=FALSE' only turns off one type of question. What
is not immediately obvious is that in order to also turn off the type of
question asked above one needs to set 'type' either to
"mac.binary.el-capitan" or "source" (by default 'type' is set to "both"
on Mac).
Some clarification in the man page about the scope of 'ask=FALSE' would
be welcome, with possibly some hint about how to turn off all questions.
From reading the documentation I think this behavior is intentional and
as documented. See "Binary packages" section in ?install.packages. In
particular there is option "install.packages.compile.from.source".
?update.packages points to this option via "See Also:"
‘install.packages’, "The options listed for ‘install.packages’ under
‘options’.". The documentation for "ask" does not seem to suggest that
this would control all options asked by update.packages(), but I've
added a sentence to make that explicit.
Best
Tomas
Thanks,
H.
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.0 beta (2019-04-16 r76403)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
Matrix products: default
BLAS:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0
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