On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote: > Paul Roebuck wrote: > > Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from > > within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as > > > > $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library > > $ cd /path/to/pkg > > $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname> > > > > > > So, how do you go about this anyway? > > And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'? > > > > ------- > > $ R > > > > R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > > Version 1.9.0 (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 > > > > > >>file.pkg <- "mypkg_0.1.tar.gz" > >>path.pkg <- file.path(path.expand("~"), "cvknn", file.pkg) > >>file.exists(path.pkg) > > > > [1] TRUE > > > >>uri.pkg <- paste("file://", path.pkg, sep = "") > >>install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS")) > > > > Error in file.info(x) : Object "tmpd" not found > > > >>traceback() > > > > 4: file.info(x) > > 3: dirTest(destdir) > > 2: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, > > contriburl = contriburl, method = method) > > 1: install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS")) > > > >>version > > > > _ > > platform sparc-sun-solaris2.9 > > arch sparc > > os solaris2.9 > > system sparc, solaris2.9 > > status > > major 1 > > minor 9.0 > > year 2004 > > month 04 > > day 12 > > language R > > > > By the way, do you get this error in a recent version of R > (say >= 1.9.1). I believe install.packages() has changed > since 1.9.0. For example, see the thread starting here > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-July/053001.html >
Roger, Thanks for that link which helped me diagnose the problem. I observed the same error you observed (.../053047.html). Still think it's kind of hinky to pass an uninitialized variable (tmpd) to another method and count on it doing something though. I wondered if something had changed as well, but noticed no change glancing at the source for install.packages on 2.0.1 (OS X). But underneath, the behavior was different since I got a different error message which noted the lack of a PACKAGES file. That was enough to get the rest to work... Hopefully this will help my case for updating to the current version on our shared Un*x workstations since I can now point to a definitive bug that impacted my work due to using an older version of this software. -------- R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > parentdir <- file.path(path.expand("~"), "Projects", "cvknn") > uri.parentdir <- paste("file://", parentdir, sep = "") > savewd <- getwd() > setwd(parentdir) > rmsymlink <- FALSE > if (file.exists("PACKAGES") == FALSE) { > file.symlink(file.path("mypkg", "DESCRIPTION"), "PACKAGES") > rmsymlink <- TRUE > } > install.packages("mypkg", + contriburl = uri.parentdir, + lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS")) > if (rmsymlink) file.remove("PACKAGES") > setwd(savewd) Perhaps the documentation for the 'contriburl' should specify that it is expecting 'URL of the directory of the contrib section of CRAN'. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html