>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:53:58 +0200 writes:
PD> Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:06:36 +0200 writes: >>>>>>> >> PD> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >> >> >>> This looks like a buglet: >> >>> >> >>>> install.packages("lme4", depend=TRUE, lib="~/Rlibrary/") >> >>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- >> >>> [...snip...] >> >>> ** preparing package for lazy loading >> >>> Error: package 'Matrix' 0.999375-4 was found, but >= 0.999375.11 is >> >>> required by 'lme4' >> >>> Execution halted >> >>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'lme4' >> >>> ** Removing '/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/lme4' >> >>> ** Restoring previous '/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/lme4' >> >>> >> >>> and the DESCRIPTION file for lme 4 does have >> >>> >> >>> Depends: methods, R(≥ 2.7.0), Matrix(≥ 0.999375-11), lattice >> >>> <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lattice/index.html> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Looks like we're either not checking the version requirement of >> >>> dependencies, or something is making 4 > 11... (from my reading of the >> >>> code, it is the former, but I could have missed something). >> >> >> >> We don't check version requirements of dependencies in >> >> install.packages(). That's a minefield related to having multiple >> >> versions of a package on a system and which gets loaded/namespace >> >> loaded, so you can easily have the needed version but pick up a >> >> different one. >> >> >> >> Depending on whether lazy-loading is in place (and various other >> >> issues) you may or may not need the dependencies to install the >> >> package. It's also a problem that you can update dependencies to >> >> incompatible ones, so the versions available at installation are only >> >> part of the story. >> >> >> >> I don't see why the message reports .11 not -11, but that may be >> >> related to "package_version" classes. >> >> >> >>> We should at least document the behaviour. >> >> >> >> I am not sure where you think it should be documented and is not. >> >> But for install.packages(): >> >> >> >> dependencies: 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", >> >> "Suggests")'. >> >> >> >> 'uninstalled' seems pretty clear to me. >> >> PD> It isn't. Matrix 0.999375-11 was 'uninstalled'. The above could just PD> mean that if you installed it, it wouldn't be installed again. >> PD> Something like "Notice that version dependencies are not checked." would PD> help. (Assuming that people read the help page.) >> >> Or even more: >> >> " >> Notice that version dependencies are not checked such that >> outdated versions of installed packages are \emph{not} updated. >> Consider using \code{\link{update.packages}()} before >> \code{install.packages()}. >> " >> >> Note that --- thanks to Heather Turner nice help.request() proposal --- >> one of my top "TODOs" for R-devel is >> to finish a generalization of the current >> update.packages() >> function (that I have not quite finished) >> which will allow to only look for updates of specified set of >> packages rather than all packages in a given lib.loc >> {something that should *not* be triggered by a help.request() >> for a user (as ours) who has ~ 2000 R packages installed}. I have now finally committed this code to R-devel (rev 46576) and plan to port it to R-2.8.0 alpha before feature freeze. It may well be worth if a few people have a look, and maybe even try to send their next R-help e-mail with the new help.request() function .. Martin PD> That's essentially what happened to me (not with 2000 packages, though). PD> I was looking into the lme4/aod issue - reinstall lme4 - Matrix out of PD> date - update.packages() - wait for an hour or so for gtk2 and friends PD> to be updated on my laptop... PD> -- PD> O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B PD> c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K PD> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 PD> ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel