On 13 February 2015 at 10:11, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 11/02/2015 10:46, Richard Cotton wrote: > > The 'at a minimum' information required by the posting guide is conspicuous > by its absence. > > At a guess, this is R-devel and Windows.
What I'm running doesn't matter if I'm asking for general opinion on the best behaviour. It has to work for everyone. > He missed the documented options (and the NEWS items, the posting guide > ...). All this is irrelevant. Whatever my OS, and whatever the documented options are, if I explicitly say I don't want interactive behaviour by specifying ask = FALSE, then R stopping to ask me things feels like incorrect behaviour. ---- Since there seems to be resistance to making any changes to the behaviour, for future readers, the solution that has been suggested to me to ensure that you don't get asked any questions is: Make sure you can compile packages (on Windows this involves installing Rtools). Then explicitly set type = "source" when you use ask = FALSE. update.packages(ask = FALSE, type = "source") ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
