[R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:03:44 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>No, both will find links in the same library as installing into (plus
>those which are fixed up on installation, e.g. to the base package).
>
>Several of us have looked for years for a fix, and this is the best scheme 
>we have come up with.  You can't put in absolute paths in the HTML as e.g. 
>a private library may be used with more than one version of R (or R may be 
>updated later).  Short of adding symbolic links to Windows (and getting 
>browsers to follow them), how do you propose `we should fix' it?

Here's a proposal:

All of check and build and install should default to the same library
location.  Check and build aren't meant to be permanent installs, so
if the package already exists there, it'll have to be temporarily
moved out of the way.

Duncan Murdoch