On 07/25/2018 04:28 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Not sure if this is a bug: where is it documented that this works not
as above (which is what I would expect)?
The documentation doesn't say one way or the other. But the fact remains
that base:::.getRequiredPackages2, when provided a non-null lib.loc,
uses that lib.loc when checking versions of dependencies. So (to me) it
seems a little incongruous that base:::.getRequiredPackages2 offers this
functionality but library() doesn't take advantage of it. Moreover, it
is already passing the 'quietly' argument...
For development puposes, you may want to try some devekopment version
of one package agaiunst release versions of the others.
Agreed, in which case I would explicitly load the dependency first
specifying a custom lib.loc.
This is the purpose of the above: take spam from ~lib and the other
from .libPath().
Best,
Uwe Ligges
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