On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:02:12AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> ...
> | I was able puzzle through things enough to determine that re-invoking
> | install.packages() as
> |
> | install.packages("~/R/Rtmp4VjFtY/dhw/openssl", repos = NULL)
> |
> | (in my case) would allow me to work with my copy of the sources; some
> | experimentation^Whacking later,
>
> Glad you have something, you still made your life harder than you should
> have. The _canonical_ and _documented_ way (and yes, there is basically an
> entire manual dedicated to this which came with your version of R) is to
>
> R CMD build foo/
> R CMD check foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
> R CMD INSTALL foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
Ah; OK; thanks! :-)
> Working from sources works, cleaning up every once in a while and working
> from pristine source is recommended for a reason.
I can understand that, certainly.
> Don't mean to call you out here, mostly leaving it for the next person
> refusing to read the manual and ending up here by other means.
Fair enough -- and thank you! :-)
(I like to think that ignorance is curable)
Peace,
david
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