Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> 2) If that's not the default: is there a way to make it so? > > Not simply, but of course it's possible with some work. The problem is > that with repos = NULL, R doesn't know where to look for dependencies. > So you need to make two passes: First, install the package, and second, > install its dependencies. > > You can use code like this to find the dependencies: > > library(tools) > > allpkgs <- installed.packages() > deps <- package.dependencies(allpkgs["test",])[[1]][,1] > > to find the dependencies of package test after you've installed it, and > > setdiff(deps, rownames(allpkgs)) > > to find the ones that are not installed. Where to find them to install > is the hard part: are they also local, or on CRAN, or where? CRAN/BioC (both of which are set to Default == TRUE in the repository conf file.
This doesn't sound like something I can automate easily to appease the userbase of my little toolbox ... Is there a way to have a package upon installation run a post-install script with the functions you outline above? Thanks for any hints, Joh ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
