Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "BB" == Ben Bolker <bol...@ufl.edu>
>>>>>> on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:45:18 -0400 writes:
>
> BB> 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.
>
> BB> But this seems so different from R's general philosophy/behavior
> BB> (inherited from Unix?) that a function that gets correct input and
> BB> executes without error returns silently ...
>
> That's correct.
> Note however that installing a package is not just a thing
> happening in your R session.
> It will affect all your future R sessions, and possibly even
> other users' who have the same .libPaths()[1]
> {e.g. the group here does share it}.
>
> I'd agree to not put a warning but I'd definitely want a message
> aka "note" to the user.
> The *wording* of that note should not be alarming at all, I
> agree, just a note to the user.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
OK, then, how about this as a minimal change?
===================================================================
--- packages.R (revision 52192)
+++ packages.R (working copy)
@@ -534,8 +534,8 @@
if(missing(lib) || is.null(lib)) {
lib <- .libPaths()[1L]
- warning(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: using %s", lib),
- immediate. = TRUE, domain = NA)
+ message(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: using %s", lib),
+ domain = NA)
}
paths <- .find.package(pkgs, lib)
Index: packages2.R
===================================================================
--- packages2.R (revision 52192)
+++ packages2.R (working copy)
@@ -193,8 +193,8 @@
if(missing(lib) || is.null(lib)) {
lib <- .libPaths()[1L]
if(length(.libPaths()) > 1L)
- warning(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: using '%s'", lib),
- immediate. = TRUE, domain = NA)
+ message(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: using '%s'", lib),
+ domain = NA)
}
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