On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > >install/update.packages() in R-devel has been enhanced in a few ways, > >notably to handle multiple repositories, and to allow packages to be > >reinstalled under the current version of R. > > > >1) Currently they will ask if you want to delete the downloaded files (if > >any) *provided* destdir was not specified. In that case it uses a > >subdirectory of the per-session temporary directory, so the files will be > >deleted at the end of the R session anyway. > > > >We had a request to make the questioning optional. I propose to remove it > >altogether, and either > > > >a) delete the downloaded files at the end of install.packages or > >b) leave them in the per-session directory to be deleted at the end of the > >session. > > > >that is to force answer 'y' or 'n' respectively. Does anyone see any > >problems with a)? > > > > > > > I would prefer b), as I am downloading from the Rgui menu and then moves > downloaded packages > to a c:\download... area which I use to burn CD-roms I distribute to > many people. If a) is choosen I guess > I could learn to use it from the command line, though. What is the > problem with b)?
Potentially leaving 1Gb or so of files in a temporary directory. So probably no big deal. Brian -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
