[R] install.packages and dependencies=TRUE

[Gábor Csárdi]

Answer to myself. 'dependencies' are

Not used if ‘repos = NULL’.

Sorry for the noise.

Gabor

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install a private package, with its dependencies. However, both
>
> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies=TRUE, repos=NULL,
> type="source")
>
> and
>
> install.packages("sand_1.0.tar.gz", dependencies="Suggests",
> repos=NULL, type="source")
>
> fail to install suggested packages:
>
>> packageDescription("sand")$Suggests
> [1] "network, sna, ape, ergm, mixer, vioplot, ROCR, fdrtool, huge"
>
> Based on the docs, I got the (obviously wrong) impression, that it was
> possible to install suggested packages. From ?install.packages,
> dependencies argument:
>
>           ‘TRUE’ means to use ‘c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo",
>           "Suggests")’ for ‘pkgs’ and ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
>           "LinkingTo")’ for added dependencies: this installs all the
>           packages needed to run ‘pkgs’, their examples, tests and
>           vignettes (if the package author specified them correctly).
>
>> library(ergm)
> Error in library(ergm) : there is no package called ‘ergm’
>> library(huge)
> Error in library(huge) : there is no package called ‘huge’
>
> What am I doing wrong, and more importantly, what is the correct way
> to install _all_ dependencies of a package?
>
> Thanks, Best,
> Gabor