Dear Dirk,
Am Samstag, den 26.11.2011, 12:42 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 26 November 2011 at 18:57, Paul Menzel wrote: > | Package: littler > | Version: 0.1.5-1 > | Severity: normal > | > | Dear Debian folks, > > There is a single maintainer for the littler package, and his name is Dirk. I am sorry. I used that term because all Debian developers and users should try to fix bugs. And sometimes the maintainers are not as devoted as you are. > | since the package rbenchmark is not packaged in Debian I installed it using > `install.packages()`. Then it was installed in my home directory I believe. > > Your problem. Always check what .libPaths() says: > > edd@max:~$ r -e 'print(.libPaths())' > [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" > [3] "/usr/lib/R/library" > edd@max:~$ It says the same on my system. > So on my system an installation __done with littler__ goes to > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library Well, since I have not changed anything by default using `install.packages()` it goes into `~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/`. > In fact littler comes with two short example scripts 'install.r' and > 'update.r' I use all the time. Eg (for a not-required re-installation:) > > edd@max:~$ ~/bin/install.r rbenchmark > trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rbenchmark_0.3.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3504 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 3504 bytes > > * installing *source* package ‘rbenchmark’ ... > ** R > ** preparing package for lazy loading > ** help > *** installing help indices > ** building package indices ... > ** testing if installed package can be loaded > > * DONE (rbenchmark) > > The downloaded packages are in > ‘/tmp/downloaded_packages’ > edd@max:~$ r -lrbenchmark -e 'res <- benchmark(function() {}); print(res)' > test replications elapsed relative user.self sys.self user.child > 1 function() { 100 0.001 1 0 0 0 > sys.child > 1 0 > edd@max:~$ I did not know about these scripts and that they should be used for installing packages. See #648981 [3]. > | Executing `R` and then `library(rbenchmark)` works. > | > | Now I wanted to try `fibonacci.r` from the examples of the Rcpp package > (`r-cran-rcpp` [2]). > | > | $ cp /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/examples/Misc/fibonacci.r /tmp/ > | $ r fibonacci.r # includes `library(rbenchmark)` > | > | This aborts with an error that the package `rbenchmark` cannot be found. > | > | $ LANG=C r fibonacci.r > | Loading required package: inline > | Loading required package: methods > | Loading required package: compiler > | Error in library(rbenchmark) : there is no package called > 'rbenchmark' > | Execution halted > | > | Is littler supposed to work in such a setup? > > Well, yes. I use littler for all the blog posts you refer to. > > Read help(Startup) and figure out your paths. > > Not a bug. Next time, just ask on r-sig-debian, please. Is there a way to get that working by default? Should the path `~/R/` which gets used by default for installing packages be added somewhere? Or a new item to the FAQ in `README.gz`? > Mit besten Gruessen, Dirk Groetjes, beste, Paul > | [1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/09/08/ > | [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=r-cran-rcpp [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648981
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