On 26 December 2017 at 22:14, Sun Yijiang wrote: | Thanks for the solution. Now I know the work-arounds, but still don't | quite get it. Why does R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES has anything to do with | library(methods)?
Because it governs which packages are loaded by default. And while R also loads 'methods', Rscript does not. Source of endless confusion. | If library(h5) works, it should just work, not depend on an environment variable. Every package using S4 will fail under Rscript unless 'methods' explicitly. | Rscript is not consistent with R, that's my confusion. Indeed. And you are not the first person confused by it. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
