[Rd] Using custom R_LIBS with R CMD install

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 February 2012 at 19:26, Uwe Ligges wrote:
| 
| 
| On 07.02.2012 19:13, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| > Hi all,
| >
| > Am I using the correct syntax to set a custom R_LIBS when running R
| > CMD INSTALL from the command line?
| >
| > I get:
| >
| > R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/
| > # Desktop : R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/
| > # * installing to library ‘/Users/hadley/R’
| > # ERROR: dependency ‘ascii’ is not available for package ‘rapport’
| 
| 
| I wonder it works that far. It won't for me on Windows nor Linux, 
| because system2 passes the whole thing shQuoted to the shell. Hence it 
| is highly shell dependent what happens with the ill formed command.
| 
| Whay not specify --library= in R CMD INSTALL if you are calling it 
| programatically from R anyway?

AFAICT Hadley is concerned about a library _source_ directory (for something
the package under development needs to run / load) rather than a _destination_.

Dirk
 
| Uwe
| 
| > But:
| >
| > ls /Users/hadley/R-dev/
| > # HandyStuff animation  biOps      mcmcTools  mvbutils   quantreg   testthat
| > # SparseM    ascii      ggplot2    mturkr     nstest     scales     whisker
| >
| > (I'm actually running this from inside R using system2, but I think
| > this is the essence of my misunderstanding)
| >
| > Hadley
| >
| 
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