Re: [Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo

2014-12-05 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, I was only doing install.packages('pkgname'), with the local repo being defined in the default repos option. After retrying it just now, this issue mysteriously suddenly disappeared, and things work as expected whether on the front node or in a job on a node. Really no idea of what happened. C

Re: [Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo

2014-12-05 Thread Gabriel Becker
Can you post exact code, i have not seen this behavior, and I work with local repositories quite extensively on my current project. ~G On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Renaud Gaujoux < ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote: > Hi, > > running install.packages() to install a package from a local rep

[Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo

2014-12-05 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, running install.packages() to install a package from a local repository (i.e., starts with file:///) appears to delete the PACKAGES file that is in the src/contrib/ directory. This happens on a cluster running Scientific Linux release 6.4 (Carbon), but not on my Ubuntu local machine. Subseque