Answer to myself. 'dependencies' are
Not used if ‘repos = NULL’.
Sorry for the noise.
Gabor
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install a private package, with its dependencies. However, both
>
> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies=TRUE, repos=NULL,
> type="source")
>
> and
>
> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies="Suggests",
> repos=NULL, type="source")
>
> fail to install suggested packages:
>
>> packageDescription("sand")$Suggests
> [1] "network, sna, ape, ergm, mixer, vioplot, ROCR, fdrtool, huge"
>
> Based on the docs, I got the (obviously wrong) impression, that it was
> possible to install suggested packages. From ?install.packages,
> dependencies argument:
>
> ‘TRUE’ means to use ‘c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo",
> "Suggests")’ for ‘pkgs’ and ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
> "LinkingTo")’ for added dependencies: this installs all the
> packages needed to run ‘pkgs’, their examples, tests and
> vignettes (if the package author specified them correctly).
>
>> library(ergm)
> Error in library(ergm) : there is no package called ‘ergm’
>> library(huge)
> Error in library(huge) : there is no package called ‘huge’
>
> What am I doing wrong, and more importantly, what is the correct way
> to install _all_ dependencies of a package?
>
> Thanks, Best,
> Gabor
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