[Rd] install.packages now intentionally references .Rprofile?

[Heather Turner]

I had a similar problem when moving to R-2.9.0 as my .Rprofile called
update.packages(). The solution was to use

if(interactive()) {
	utils:::update.packages(ask = FALSE)
}

HTH,

Heather

Mark Kimpel wrote:
> This was my original post, with the code example only slightly modified by
> Martin for clarity. Prior to R-2.9.0, this repeated downloading did not
> occur, the code worked as intended. In fact, if memory serves me correctly,
> it even worked at least during the first 3 months of R-2.0.0 in its
> development stage, before release as a numbered version. Is there a reason
> for that? Is there a work-around? As I mentioned in my original post, the
> code is actually wrapped in a function that checks the date and the date of
> the last update, and proceeds to update package once per week. It was quite
> handy when it was working, hence my desire for a fix for my code.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
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> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Martin Morgan wrote:
>>
>>  A post on the Bioconductor mailing list
>>>  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2009-May/027700.html
>>>
>>> suggests that install.packages now references .Rprofile (?), whereas
>>> in R-2-8 it did not. Is this intentional?
>>>
>> Yes.  And in fact it did in earlier versions, to find the default library
>> into which to install.
>>
>>
>>
>>> The example is, in .Rprofile
>>>
>>>  library(utils)
>>>  install.packages("Biobase",
>>>                  repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc")
>>>
>>> then starting R from the command line results in repeated downloads
>>> of Biobase
>>>
>>> mtmorgan at mm:~/tmp> R --quiet
>>> trying URL
>>> '
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/src/contrib/Biobase_2.4.1.tar.gz
>>> '
>>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1973533 bytes (1.9 Mb)
>>> opened URL
>>> ==================================================
>>> downloaded 1.9 Mb
>>>
>>> trying URL
>>> '
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/src/contrib/Biobase_2.4.1.tar.gz
>>> '
>>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1973533 bytes (1.9 Mb)
>>> opened URL
>>> ==================================================
>>> downloaded 1.9 Mb
>>>
>>> ^C
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>>  sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.9.0 Patched (2009-05-20 r48588)
>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>
>>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> Martin
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