On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:36:23 -0800 arilamst...@gmail.com wrote: > It appears that install.packages does not automatically install > package dependencies when the package is installed via a URL. [...] > When I type getOption('repos') I get: > > CRAN > "https://cran.rstudio.com/" > attr(,"RStudio") > [1] TRUE
Do you set this value somewhere (via an environment variable or start up file)? Or is it this value because you use RStudio as IDE? If you use RStudio, please be aware that RStudio has its own version of install.packages(): RStudio> install.packages function (...) .rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...) <environment: 0x12a530f00> So if you are using RStudio, you will have to talk with Posit about changing the behaviour of install.packages(). If you want the behaviour of utils::install.packages() to change, I am sure that R-Core will consider any diff that implements the new/improved behaviour. :-) Cheers, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.