[Rd] Rprofile.site in Windows version
Erich Neuwirth
erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at
Thu Feb 14 01:15:56 CET 2008
You are of course right, library(tools) is not necessary.
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 09/02/2008 6:44 PM, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
>> I think Rprofile.site as installed with R-2.6.2
>> contains some misleading information.
>> It contains the following lines
>>
>> # set a CRAN mirror
>> # local({r <- getOption("repos")
>> # r["CRAN"] <- "http://my.local.cran"
>> # options(repos=r)})'.
>>
>> Uncommenting these lines and changing the URL
>> will not work.
>>
>> '. at the end of the last line will break the execution.
>
> Yes, those shouldn't be there.
>
>> Furthermore
>> library(tools)
>> needs to be run before these lines can be run.
>
> Why? local, getOption, and options are all in the base package.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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