On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming it >> knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, >> unfortunately, making the interaction more and more annoying). For some >> users this error simply means that they mistyped the package name, so >> fetching CRAN repos on that behalf ranges somewhere between overkill and >> stupidity. If the user can't type install.packages() then I am certainly not >> confident that the user can use R for any reasonable data analysis. > > In that case, maybe a better message should be: > >> library(xyz) > Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz'. > Are you sure you are smart enough to use R? > > ;) >
Unfortunately we are in code freeze, so it will only make it into 2.14.0 patched ... ;) Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
