Can you post exact code, i have not seen this behavior, and I work with local repositories quite extensively on my current project.
~G On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Renaud Gaujoux < ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote: > Hi, > > running install.packages() to install a package from a local repository > (i.e., starts with file:///) appears to delete the PACKAGES file that is in > the src/contrib/ directory. > This happens on a cluster running Scientific Linux release 6.4 (Carbon), > but not on my Ubuntu local machine. > > Subsequent calls to install.packages() complain about src/contrib/PACKAGES > not existing, although there still is a src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz file. > > Is this a know issue? > Thank you. > > Bests, > Renaud > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Gabriel Becker Graduate Student Statistics Department University of California, Davis [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel