José Luis Aznarte M. wrote: > Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> I don't do 2, 3, 4 that way. I just run the sessions in parallel, >> and do (no root privilege required): >> >> R CMD INSTALL -l sometemplace mypackage >> >> and in a parallel session, do >> >> library(mypackage, lib.loc="sometemplate") > What do you mean by "sometemplate"? Is that the complete path to > where the library's source is? Or is it a temporary folder to install > it? In that case, I could use /tmp/ (in linux) to install test versions > of the library? And, by doing the "library(mypackage, lib.log="/tmp")" > call, do I overwrite the current one, including namespaces and so on? > Sorry I did not understand exactly what you meant. Thank you so much > anyway. :-)
typo... happier with this below? Both of them (same "/tmp") is an alternative installed location, not source location. R CMD INSTALL -l /tmp mypackage library(mypackage, lib.loc="/tmp") I don't think you can do 'library(mypackage, lib.loc="/tmp")' twice (with a re-install in the middle), if that's what you are thinking. I think you need to do detach(package:mypackage) at least, and even then, windows's dll loader gets very confused. I believe I had managed to crash R by dyn.load()'ing two object files of the same name twice under wine, so I am not sure it is a good idea. I read somewhere that object files are never unloaded, but you'll need to hear it from the R experts... HTL ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
