On 06/01/2010 07:51 AM, Scott Brogan wrote:
In Ubuntu 10.04, from the R command line
install.packages('TSA',dep=TRUE)
downloads& installs about 100 packages from CRAN, including some big
ones like Zelig. It's only supposed to depend on leaps, locfit, mgcv,
& tseries& through them akima, lattice, quadprog, zoo,& stats.
Not a big problem of course, but I wondered if anyone else had noticed
this behaviour.
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Scott,
From help(install.packages)
logical indicating to also install uninstalled packages on which these
packages depend/suggest/import (and so on recursively). Not used if
repos = NULL. Can also be a character vector, a subset of c("Depends",
"Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances").
Using 'dep=TRUE' includes the Suggests, which is where the 200 packages
are coming from. 'install.packages('TSA',dep=c("Depends", "Imports",
"LinkingTo"))' only installs the ones you would think TSA needs.
Michael
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