Hi Dirk,
Thanks for the solution. Now I know the work-arounds, but still don't
quite get it. Why does R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES has anything to do with
library(methods)? If library(h5) works, it should just work, not depend on
an environment variable. Rscript is not consistent with R, that's my
confus
On 26 December 2017 at 22:14, Sun Yijiang wrote:
| Thanks for the solution. Now I know the work-arounds, but still don't
| quite get it. Why does R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES has anything to do with
| library(methods)?
Because it governs which packages are loaded by default. And while R also
loads 'metho
On 26 December 2017 at 15:24, Sun Yijiang wrote:
| After looking into C source code, I found that Rscript by default fills
| environment variable R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES with
| "datasets,utils,grDevices,graphics,stats", and it somehow fails some
| package like h5.
|
| The problem here is, not setting
Consider this script (with h5 installed):
$ cat test.R
library(h5)
name <- tempfile()
f <- h5file(name)
file.remove(name)
$ Rscript test.R
Error in initialize(value, ...) :
cannot use object of class "character" in new(): class "H5File" does not
extend that class
Calls: h5file -> new -> initia
