warning from install.packages()
Michael Dewey wrote:
At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote:
On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, "Ben Bolker" <bolker <at> ufl.edu> wrote: Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' )?
As I see it R is saying 'I am doing what you told me, but just in case I am checking whether that was what you really wanted'. Note that you do not get a warning if there was only one place R could put it. I would certainly vote for a message if people are getting unnecessarily alarmed by the warning.
But this seems so different from R's general philosophy/behavior (inherited from Unix?) that a function that gets correct input and executes without error returns silently ... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 261 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/attachments/20100602/f72f3302/attachment.bin>