[Rd] problem with tilde expansion in install.packages
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 23 16:39:51 CEST 2004
Do you have readline working on that version of R? If so, it is readline
problem. If not, do you have HOME set? - if not, try setting it.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> 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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