Michael Dewey wrote: > At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote: > >>> On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, "Ben Bolker" <bolker <at> ufl.edu> wrote: >>> Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() >>> gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument >>> 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' )? > > As I see it R is saying 'I am doing what you told > me, but just in case I am checking whether that > was what you really wanted'. Note that you do not > get a warning if there was only one place R could > put it. I would certainly vote for a message if > people are getting unnecessarily alarmed by the warning.
But this seems so different from R's general philosophy/behavior (inherited from Unix?) that a function that gets correct input and executes without error returns silently ...
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