Re: [R] R 2.7.2 missing something in the install packages menu functions...

2008-10-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What OS, which 'menu'? Is it my imagination or does the posting guide no lomger ask you for 'at a minimum' the output of sessionInfo() ? Rgui (for Windows) has used dependencies=NA (sic, the default for install.packages) since late 2006. And if you meant the MacOS R.app, that has a separate

[R] R 2.7.2 missing something in the install packages menu functions...

2008-10-18 Thread Brian Lunergan
Hi folks: Puzzled about something. Is it just my imagination or has the dep = TRUE been dropped from the install packages menu function with this edition? As recently as 2.7.1 the choice seemed to hunt dependencies automatically, but now I'm having to enter the function manually to get that b