On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Thomas Stabla wrote:
> ....
> > > 1) install.packages("<package>") will install <package>, no matter if
> > > <package> has already been installed.
> > > 2) the readline() at the end of install.packages, which asks the user, if
> > > the downloaded files should be deleted, makes it difficult to
> > > delete packages automatically after installation (I must admit, I'm not
> > > quite familiar with R CMD BATCH)
> > >
> > >
> > > Question/Request:
> > > Is the behaviour in 1) intended?
> >
> > Most definitely. I might want to install it in another library, or to
> > reinstall it under the current version of R.
>
> Or, as happened to me about an hour ago: You install a package with a
> dozen dependencies, then realize that you want to rerun with
> dependencies=TRUE.
Similar thing happended to me, I simply forgot to set dep=TRUE, and
afterwards, was annoyed, when I had to reinstall the packages that were
already installed.
Therefore the changes I made wouldn't prevent a rerun with
dependencies=TRUE, because the packages which are already installed are
not excluded from "pkgs" until the dependencies have been checked.
Thomas Stabla
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