Re: [Rd] install.packages() and configure.args

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Gentleman
since, in Herve's example only one package was named, it would be nice to either, make sure configure args are associated with it, or to force only named configure.args parameters, and possibly check the names? Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi

Re: [Rd] install.packages() and configure.args

2007-10-20 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Herve The "best" way to specify configure.args when there are multiple packages (either directly or via dependencies) is to use names on the character vector, i.e. install.packages("Rgraphviz", rep="http://bioconductor.org/

[Rd] install.packages() and configure.args

2007-10-19 Thread Herve Pages
Hi, In the case where install.packages("packageA") also needs to install required package "packageB", then what is passed thru the 'configure.args' argument seems to be lost when it's the turn of packageA to be installed (the last package to get installed). This is not easy to reproduce but let's