Indeed Hugh, apologies for the oversight, I've reported this to Rstudio, as I believe it is problematic to get an irrelevant help file when calling `?install.packages`.
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/5154 Best regards, Antoine Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 13:59, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Are you running that command in RStudio? And do you get the documented > results when you run utils::install.packages() rather than just > install.packages() > > If yes, then the function is likely working as advertised and you've > mixed up the R and RStudio versions > > > On 29/07/2019, Ant F <antoine.fa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > The help for `?install.packages` decribes, in the `pkg` argument > > description : > > > >> If this is missing, a listbox of available packages is presented where > > possible in an interactive R session. > > > > In fact running it with a missing argument triggers an error : > > > > install.packages() > >> Error in install.packages : argument "pkgs" is missing, with no default > > > > What however doesn't trigger an error is callinginstall.packages on a > zero > > length character : > > > > install.packages(character(0)) > > > > On my colleague's R 3.5.1 windows installation it shows the listbox of > > available packages, on my 3.6.0 installation it pauses for a couple > seconds > > and doesn't do anything. > > > > A character vector of length zero is what you get when you compute an > empty > > `setdiff` or `intersection`, so it was very surprising to us to see > > something popup where we were expecting a vector of missing packages to > be > > installed (or none if there was no missing package). > > > > I believe having the function work as advertised with a proper missing > > argument, and having it do nothing silently when the argument is of > length > > zero, would make more sense. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Antoine > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
