You can put the code on several lines as shown or on one line. Does not matter.
Read the info on the dependencies= arg in ?install.packages for the definitive explanation of how dependencies= works. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Brian Lunergan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> leaps is not in Depends or Imports for car. It is in Suggests >> and those don't get automatically pulled in when dependencies = NA. >> >> What you could do is to replace the builtin menuInstallPkgs with >> your own by running this: >> >> assignInNamespace("menuInstallPkgs", function (type = >> getOption("pkgType")) { >> install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = TRUE, type = >> type) >> }, ns = "utils") >> >> You will need to do that in every session that you want to use the install >> menu or you could just add it to your Rprofile.site file which you >> can find by running this: >> >> file.path(R.home(), "etc", "Rprofile.site") > > So, if I'm understanding this correctly, for a simple, one libpath() > situation like mine dep = NA will catch depends and imports, while dep = > TRUE will catch those two plus anything under suggests. From prior > discussion and suggested reading I take it I would use dep = FALSE to catch > the first two if I had multiple locations in libpath() while dep = TRUE > behaviour would stay the same. > > In putting the above code snippet into the Rprofile file, does it need to be > all on one line or can it spread over multiple lines as it appears above? > > My thanks for your time and patient assistance in finding the answers. It is > very much appreciated and useful. > > Regards... > -- > > Brian Lunergan > Nepean, Ontario > Canada > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 081018-0, 2008-10-18 > Tested on: 2008-10-20 09:32:23 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > ______________________________________________ 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.