On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Gad Abraham wrote:
On 23/6/09 11:12 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
Does "install dependencies" only install Depends or also Suggests?
It's equivalent to install.packages(dependencies=TRUE)
OK, so it installs all the Depends, Imports, Suggests, and Enhances.
But does the non-checked Package Installer action mimic what the
default "dependencies=NA" does?
"The default, NA, means c("Depends", "Imports") if lib is unambiguous,
and FALSE otherwise."
(I think that means FALSE in my case, since I do not have an
unambiguous .libPaths(), but for most people it appears to mean NA. )
Maybe this should be mentioned somehow in the GUI (rename "install
dependencies"?). It's not too much of an issue for CRAN, but in
BioConductor there are large packages (10s of MB at least) which can
get downloaded needlessly but are only Suggested.
As another user I vote "opposed" to that suggestion. I would want the
Install dependencies check box to do what the naive-user like myself
would expect, which is to mimic the action of install.packages(<pkg>,
<url>, dependencies=TRUE).
As an alternative suggestion, it might be helpful to have the R
command echoed to the GUI console so that a syntactically correct
template could be modified.
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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