install.packages() fails if .libPaths() set
On 29.10.2012 23:35, Hadley Wickham wrote:
Reproducible example:
dir.create("test")
.libPaths("test")
install.packages("relations", type = "source")
Fails with:
...
* installing *source* package ?relations? ...
...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
Error : package ?sets? required by ?relations? could not be found
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
*** arch - x86_64
Error : package ?sets? required by ?relations? could not be found
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed for ?i386?, ?x86_64?
If I don't set .libPaths() it installs without error.
Yes, since your package set is installed in a library that is not "test". And you have omitted that library from the search path by changing .libPaths(). Uwe Ligges
This is on a fairly recent version of R-devel (Oct 3) and on R 2.15.1 Hadley