[Rd] a package depending on other packages does not pass checking on windows

Kasper Daniel Hansen khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Oct 30 00:17:55 CET 2007


I have been bitten by this myself. For that reason I have stopped  
using .Renviron.

I believe the behavior is the same under Linux and Windows, so I  
think you might have a different setup on the two machines.

You can fix it by explicitly setting
   R_LIBS
as an environment variable or by putting the following in your .Rprofile
   .libPaths(SOMEDIR)
But of these are accessed by R CMD ...

Kasper

On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Mstislav Elagin wrote:

> Dear developers,
>
> I am writing a package that depends on some other packages. The
> dependencies are stated in the `description' file under "Depends".  
> They
> are installed in my private library, which is pointed to by setting
> R_LIBS in .Renviron, and are available if R is started normally.
> However, when I try to `R CMD check' my package, R complains about the
> dependencies being not available. I believe the reason is the option
> --vanilla set in $R_HOME/bin/check that prevents R from reading my
> .Renviron.
> This problem manifests itself with R 2.5.1 under Windows XP but not  
> with
> the same version under Linux. (Yes, I know this is not the latest
> version, sorry about that :) )
>
> How do I convince `R CMD check' to find the packages installed in the
> private library?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> WBR
>
> Mstislav Elagin
>
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