[R] Package installation and path.package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 09/09/2013 02:09, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Sep 8, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Simon Zehnder wrote:
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>> Dear R-Users and R-Devels,
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>> I am writing right now my own package that makes use of 'tempfile' and there within with 'path.package'. When I install it, I get the error: Error in path.package("mypackage") : none of the packages are loaded.
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>> I understand the error, but I would like to have a workaround. How can I give the path to the package I am actually installing without getting this error?
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> (We do not have the code so this is speculation.) Your packages should be assumed to be available in one of the directories in .libPaths()
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Not until the package is fully installed.  We do have no idea what is 
going on here ... and R-devel seems the appropriate list.

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