[Rd] problem with tilde expansion in install.packages
Roger D. Peng
rpeng at jhsph.edu
Wed Jun 23 15:59:10 CEST 2004
In R 1.9.0 on Solaris/Sparc when I run, for example,
install.packages("gregmisc", "~/R-local/lib"), instead of installing
the `gregmisc' package in the directory
/users/student/rpeng/R-local/lib the package gets installed in
/users/student/rpeng/\~/R-local/lib, so the directory \~ is created in
my home directory. This doesn't happen to me on Linux or Windows so I
thought it might not be an R problem.
I realize I'm referring to an older version of R but I was wondering
if anyone had seen this happen (perhaps on 1.9.1) or how I might
better pinpoint the problem.
> version
_
platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8
arch sparc
os solaris2.8
system sparc, solaris2.8
status
major 1
minor 9.0
year 2004
month 04
day 12
language R
If it matters, I'm using tcsh (in /bin/tcsh).
-roger
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Roger D. Peng
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