I looked for evidence that this is supposed to happen, as it was news to
me that it did on some versions of R. Possible sources of documentation
seem to be
R CMD INSTALL --help
?INSTALL
R-intro.texi, R-exts.texi, R-admin.texi
none of which mention this AFAICS, and all seem to be written assuming an
existing library tree.
DId you find something to suggest otherwise? Clearly no alpha/beta
tester expected this to work.
I am not at all sure this would be desirable. It seems that specifying a
non-existent library tree would most likely be a typing error, and
silently creating it would lead to some puzzling errors. (In fact, I now
suspect that this has happened to me in the past.)
I've added some much more specific error messages.
On Wed, 16 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Soeren,
>
> On 16 May 2007 at 23:00, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> | Package: r-base-core
> | Version: 2.5.1~20070513-1 [ aka R-patched as of 20070513 ]
> | Severity: important
> |
> | R CMD INSTALL -l /path/to/lib
> |
> | no longer creates /path/to/lib but assumes it does already exist. This
> | is a change in behaviour as it has worked with R 2.4.X
Yes, but changes in undocumented behaviour are allowed, especially if no
one knows about them.
> Let me pass that on to R Bugs then as it is in no way related to any Debian
> changes.
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
>
> | looking at /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL, the problem seems to be in the block
> starting at line 298:
> |
> |
> |
> | lib=`tilde_expand "${lib}"`
> | if test -z "${lib}"; then
> | lib=`echo "cat('\n~~~', .libPaths()[1], '\n', sep = '')" | \
> | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL "${R_EXE}" --no-save --slave | \
> | grep '^~~~' | sed 's/.*~~~//'`
> | message "Installing to library '$lib'"
> | else
> | lib0=${lib}
> | cd ${lib} <-------------- PROBLEM directory must not exist (call
> MKDIR_P before ?)
> | lib=`${GETWD}`
> | cd ${startdir}
> | fi
> |
> |
> | -- System Information:
> | Debian Release: lenny/sid
> | APT prefers stable
> | APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1,
> 'experimental')
> | Architecture: i386 (i686)
> |
> | Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> | Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> |
> | Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
> | ii atlas3-base [libblas.so.3 3.6.0-20.6 Automatically Tuned Linear
> Algebra
> | ii atlas3-sse2 [libblas.so.3 3.6.0-20.6 Automatically Tuned Linear
> Algebra
> | ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting
> file co
> | ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> | ii libgfortran1 4.1.2-7 Runtime library for GNU
> Fortran ap
> | ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange
> library
> | ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's
> JPEG
> | ii libpaper-utils 1.1.21 Library for handling paper
> charact
> | ii libpcre3 6.7-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular
> Expressi
> | ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
> | ii libreadline5 5.2-2 GNU readline and history
> libraries
> | ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Session Management library
> | ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
> | ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> | ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical
> Extraction
> | ii refblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra
> Subroutines 3
> | ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1.1 Tcl (the Tool Command
> Language) v8
> | ii tk8.4 8.4.12-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11,
> v8.4 -
> | ii unzip 5.52-9 De-archiver for .zip files
> | ii zip 2.32-1 Archiver for .zip files
> | ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-14 compression library - runtime
> |
> | Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
> | ii r-base-dev 2.5.1~20070513-1 GNU R installation of
> auxiliary GN
> | ii r-recommended 2.5.1~20070513-1 GNU R collection of
> recommended pa
> |
> | -- no debconf information
> |
>
>
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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