[R] Dep setting for install of packages... Hopefully this is it this time

[Brian Lunergan]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> leaps is not in Depends or Imports for car.  It is in Suggests
> and those don't get automatically pulled in when dependencies = NA.
> 
> What you could do is to replace the builtin menuInstallPkgs with
> your own by running this:
> 
> assignInNamespace("menuInstallPkgs", function (type = getOption("pkgType")) {
>     install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = TRUE, type = type)
> }, ns = "utils")
> 
> You will need to do that in every session that you want to use the install
> menu or you could just add it to your Rprofile.site file which you
> can find by running this:
> 
> file.path(R.home(), "etc", "Rprofile.site")

Okay, I must be missing something. Switched back up to v2.8.0 running on 
XP. Modified Rprofile.site as follows:

# Things you might want to change

# options(papersize="a4")
# options(editor="notepad")
# options(pager="internal")

# to prefer Compiled HTML help
   options(chmhelp=TRUE)

# to prefer HTML help
# options(htmlhelp=TRUE)

# .Library.site <- file.path(chartr("\\", "/", R.home()), "site-library")

# set a CRAN mirror
# local({r <- getOption("repos")
#       r["CRAN"] <- "http://my.local.cran"
#       options(repos=r)})

   assignInNamespace("menuInstallPkgs", function (type = 
getOption("pkgType")) {
       install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1], dependencies = TRUE, type = type)
   }, ns = "utils")

Saved the file and then opened Rgui. The following error appears:

Error: could not find function "assignInNamespace"
 >

I'm guessing that means the program doesn't recognize the edit, but the 
function did turn up when I ran ?assignInNamespace. I have no idea what 
went wrong. Anybody more knowledgeable in the inner workings here care to 
point me further on in the right direction, please?

-- 

Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada


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