Thanks! Btw, install() from the devtools package can do this in theory, but not in practice, because of a bug (it silently ignores "Suggests"). This is fixed in their github version.
Just to add something useful here. Gabor On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/12/2013 11:26 AM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to install a private package, with its dependencies. However, >> both >> >> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies=TRUE, repos=NULL, >> type="source") >> >> and >> >> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies="Suggests", >> repos=NULL, type="source") >> >> fail to install suggested packages: >> >> > packageDescription("sand")$Suggests >> [1] "network, sna, ape, ergm, mixer, vioplot, ROCR, fdrtool, huge" >> >> Based on the docs, I got the (obviously wrong) impression, that it was >> possible to install suggested packages. From ?install.packages, >> dependencies argument: >> >> ‘TRUE’ means to use ‘c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", >> "Suggests")’ for ‘pkgs’ and ‘c("Depends", "Imports", >> "LinkingTo")’ for added dependencies: this installs all the >> packages needed to run ‘pkgs’, their examples, tests and >> vignettes (if the package author specified them correctly). >> >> > library(ergm) >> Error in library(ergm) : there is no package called ‘ergm’ >> > library(huge) >> Error in library(huge) : there is no package called ‘huge’ >> >> What am I doing wrong, and more importantly, what is the correct way >> to install _all_ dependencies of a package? > > > The problem is with repos=NULL (i.e. a local install). Since none of those > dependencies are local, they aren't found and won't be installed. > > I imagine some package has a function that does what you want, but I don't > know it. It wouldn't be hard to put one together as follows: > > 1. install your package without its dependencies. > 2. use tools::package_dependencies() to find the (non-recursive) > dependencies. > 3. install those, with their dependencies. > > You could add a step to filter the list in 2 so that you don't re-install > something that is already there. > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.