[Rd] install.packages() fails if .libPaths() set

2012-10-29 Thread Hadley Wickham
Reproducible example: dir.create("test") .libPaths("test") install.packages("relations", type = "source") Fails with: ... * installing *source* package ‘relations’ ... ... ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error : package ‘sets’ required by ‘relations’ could not be fo

[Rd] data.frame() args in transform()

2012-10-29 Thread Ken Williams
Starting in SVN revision 47035 (which shows up in the R-2-9-0 line), transform.data.frame() started accepting arguments like 'row.names' and 'stringsAsFactors' to be passed through to the data.frame() function. It looks like this was an unintentional side-effect of letting multiple columns be a