Herve, On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Herve Pages wrote:
> Man page for 'install.packages' says that if the 'lib' arg is missing, > then it "defaults to '.libPaths()[1]' with a warning". Where are you quoting from? I read (R 2.3.1): install.packages can be used to install new packages/bundles. It takes a vector of names and a destination library, downloads the packages from the repositories and installs them. (If the library is omitted it defaults to the first directory in .libPaths(), with a warning if there is more than one.) and that description is correct. > But, given the 'install.packages' source code, it seems that this > warning is issued only when 'length(.libPaths()) > 1'. This is what the man page says ... > So typically, this warning will appear on Mac OS X but not on a > Linux or Windows systems with default settings. ... and neither on Mac OS X with default settings. > On my Mac OS X system: > >> .libPaths() > [1] "/Users/biocbuild/Library/R/Library" ^^ - this is your custom setting, it is not the default > [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.Framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/ > library" > The default on OS X is > .libPaths() [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library" > in the shell and > .libPaths() [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/library" > in the GUI (since v1.16). Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
