[Rd] problem with tilde expansion in install.packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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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