[R-pkg-devel] Order of repo access from options("repos")

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 March 2024 at 11:43, Martin Morgan wrote:
| So all repositories are consulted and then the result filtered to contain just
| the most recent version of each. Does it matter then what order the
| repositories are visited?

Right. I fall for that too often, as I did here.  The order matters for
.libPaths() where the first match is use, for package install the highest
number (from any entry in getOption(repos)) wins.

Thanks for catching my thinko.

Dirk

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