[Rd] Buglet in install.packages warning message

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Mon Mar 21 03:34:13 CET 2005


I've been experimenting with install.packages and it's new ability to
track down dependencies from a list of repositories and encountered
this:

install.packages(c("foo", "bar"), repos="http://cran.r-project.org", 
                 dependencies=c("Depends", "Suggests"))

dependencies 'foo' are not availabledependencies 'bar' are not available
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

With the following change (see below) I get what I suspect is the
intended warning message:

   dependencies 'foo', 'bar' are not available


+ seth


Index: packages2.R
===================================================================
--- packages2.R	(revision 33678)
+++ packages2.R	(working copy)
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
                 cat(sprintf(ngettext(sum(miss),
                                      "dependency %s is not available",
                                      "dependencies %s are not available"),
-                    paste(sQuote(p1[miss]), sep=", ")), "\n\n", sep ="")
+                    paste(sQuote(p1[miss]), collapse=", ")), "\n\n", sep ="")
                 flush.console()
             }
             p1 <- p1[!miss]



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