You are of course right, library(tools) is not necessary.

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 09/02/2008 6:44 PM, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
>> I think Rprofile.site as installed with R-2.6.2
>> contains some misleading information.
>> It contains the following lines
>>
>> # set a CRAN mirror
>> # local({r <- getOption("repos")
>> #       r["CRAN"] <- "http://my.local.cran";
>> #       options(repos=r)})'.
>>
>> Uncommenting these lines and changing the URL
>> will not work.
>>
>> '. at the end of the last line will break the execution.
> 
> Yes, those shouldn't be there.
> 
>> Furthermore
>> library(tools)
>> needs to be run before these lines can be run.
> 
> Why?  local, getOption, and options are all in the base package.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 

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