Re: [Rd] Improving messaging on successful binary package installation

2025-01-29 Thread Josiah Parry
Other people may be like me where R is the first programming language I learned. It took probably ~5/6 years or more to learn what “MD5” is and even longer to understand what a checksum is and why they’re useful. I think saying it _explicitly_ is helpful. Maybe saying that 1) the package was ins

Re: [Rd] Improving messaging on successful binary package installation

2025-01-29 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 1/29/25 15:27, Jeroen Ooms wrote: I have been testing R-devel and really enjoying fast parallel downloading of R packages, especially on mac/win where there is no complication step either, it is super nice. Perhaps the install.packages() messaging could still be improved a bit. Right now if

[Rd] Improving messaging on successful binary package installation

2025-01-29 Thread Jeroen Ooms
I have been testing R-devel and really enjoying fast parallel downloading of R packages, especially on mac/win where there is no complication step either, it is super nice. Perhaps the install.packages() messaging could still be improved a bit. Right now if one installs a package on Windows/MacOS