I agree: much nicer to say what went wrong than to say "there is no package"
And many people will not know what R's paths are. Why not add in a hint about what to do, like: "try running install.packages("xyz") " t > ggrothendieck > Many beginners are advanced but just don't know R. Its better to give > them the information they need. With this they can discover what is > there even without knowing the relevant R commands. On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> > wrote: >> Le jeudi 27 octobre 2011 à 13:45 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck a écrit : >>> Perhaps it could report where it looked and couldn't find it: >>> >>> There is no package called 'xyz' in "C:/R/win-library/2.13" and >>> "C:/R/R-2.13.2/library" >> I think it would be even more scary for beginners, and advanced users >> probably know how to find their library path. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel