[R-SIG-Mac] Weird package Installer behavior

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

When you install from the GUi you can either do a system wide install
(in /Library/...) or you can do a user-level install (in
~/Library/...).

You can see where R searches for packages by doing
  .libPaths()

I expect that the first element will be somewhere in your home dir.

I don't use the GUI so I have forgotten how you control whether you do
a local or system-wide (for all users) install of a new package, but
it seems like the GUI (with your setup) always installs into the
system-wide dir.

Kasper

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM, steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was having issues installing the latest version of ' raster'  from CRAN.
> The behavior was that the repository showed a version 1.4-10 available. So I
> installed it using the GUI installer. In installed properly as 1.4-10.
>
> Then I switched to the package manager to load the package. The GUI for the
> manager had two instances of 'raster'. When previewed the documentation file
> indicated raster 1.4.7.
>
> I Loaded the package and  sessionInfo() had package 1.4-7 loaded.
>
> Figuring I might have screwed something up. I did the following.
>
> 1. Updated my system for the latest System patches.
>   10.5.8  Build 9L31a
>
> 2. Remove R from ..Library/Frameworks/R.Framework
>
> 3. Remove R.app both the 64bit and 32 bit.
>
> 4  Remove all raster components ( builds from Forge that the developer and I
> were testing) basically all the tar files.
>
> 5. I still have GDal, and Proj, and Geos Installed.
>
> 6. Download R and GUI  Fresh from Cran
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1
>>
>
> With No contributed packages loaded, I open the GUI  Installer:
>
> The column that reflects the "installed version" has entries for packages
> That I had previously installed, But have not installed
> with this fresh and clean R install. ( XML, uncompress, survival,spatial,
> sp,raster 1.4-7.....)
>
> When I install raster using the GUI I get this
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1
> trying URL '
> http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.11/raster_1.4-10.tgz
> '
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1319282 bytes (1.3 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1.3 Mb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> /var/folders/ea/eaXeR9KIEZSbgaDPdoLSwU+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpAvZAyO/downloaded_packages
>>
>
> Then
>
> library("raster")
> Loading required package: sp
> raster version 1.4-7 (24-August-2010)
>>
>
> when I check the documentation using the package manager GUI, it says
>  raster 1.4.7
>
> when I check the raster folder in R.frameworks. I see this: ( description
> file)
>
> Package: raster
> Type: Package
> Title: Geographic analysis and modeling with raster data
> Version: 1.4-10
> Date: 28-August-2010
> Depends: methods, sp, R (>= 2.8.0)
> Suggests: rgdal (>= 0.5-33), ncdf, igraph, tcltk, lattice, rgl
> Author: Robert J. Hijmans & Jacob van Etten
> Maintainer: Robert J. Hijmans <r.hijmans at gmail.com>
> Description: Reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of
>        gridded spatial data. The package implements basic and
>        high-level functons, as well as map algebra. Processing of very
>        large files is supported.
> License: GPL (>= 3)
> URL: http://raster.r-forge.r-project.org/
> Repository: CRAN
> Repository/R-Forge/Project: raster
> Repository/R-Forge/Revision: 1137
> Date/Publication: 2010-08-29 07:13:20
> Packaged: 2010-08-28 20:51:14 UTC; rforge
> Built: R 2.11.1; ; 2010-08-30 06:28:07 UTC; unix
>
> When I check the HTML subfolder in raster I find this file
>
> 00Index.html
>
>
> This is the file that should be displayed when you select a package in the
> package MANAGER GUI.
>
> This file is CORRECT. Index for raster 1.4.10.
>
>
> So, I have to conclude that some resources are left hanging around after I
> uninstalled R. For some reason.
>
>
> Am I missing something? and how do I get raster 1.4.10 to load and why is
> 1.4.7 left hanging around after I uninstalled R and all packages
>
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