Message-ID: <50d1c22d0903260820x33a510efp55421da0b8ff89d7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-03-26T15:20:26Z
From: ivo welch
Subject: package installation on OSX --- suggestion
dear R experts:
I am trying to install packages in OSX, R 2.8.1. Since I do this
about every 2 years, I have completely forgotten it. However, this
should not be difficult:
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:packages
nice document. beautiful method. so, I start with
update.packages()
the final message tells me that it saved all the packages into
/var/folders/Ia/IaQbr8K+GQ8DqdaGMAC18++++yU/-Tmp-/RtmpjRkMV7/downloaded_packages/
. not exactly user-friendly. at this point, I don't know whether
they were also installed or just downloaded. the same happens when I
do an install.package("plm", dependencies=T). would it not make sense
if the package were installed in the standard R library location at
this point, and the final message to tell me that the package was
indeed installed, and not about the temporary directory?
[I suspect that it actually did the install, so this is just a "final
message" issue.]
just a suggestion...
[and thanks everybody for all the help yesterday. now back to my moments.]
regards,
/ivo