> Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming it > knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, > unfortunately, making the interaction more and more annoying). For some users > this error simply means that they mistyped the package name, so fetching CRAN > repos on that behalf ranges somewhere between overkill and stupidity. If the > user can't type install.packages() then I am certainly not confident that the > user can use R for any reasonable data analysis.
In that case, maybe a better message should be: > library(xyz) Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz'. Are you sure you are smart enough to use R? ;) Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
