Why are you mucking with the system-level library? It is quite unusual to have a use-case in which you should not be adjusting your personal library.
On May 14, 2020 10:05:53 AM PDT, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: >On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Sarah Goslee wrote: > >> Not so coincidentally, I just worked thru this for myself. >> http://numberwright.com/2020/04/clean-and-new/ > >Sarah, > >This isn't working for me on Slackware-14.2/x86_64. My R library is in >/usr/lib64/R/library/ and I copied the contents to a text file, one >package >per line. > >Using the filename, packagelist, as an argument to install.packages() >fails: >> install.packages(packagelist) >Error in install.packages(packagelist) : object 'packagelist' not found > >Adding quotes didn't help. > >Creating a script, newversionupdate.R, containing the line, >install.packages(packagelist) > >and sourcing it also failed. > >What might I be doing incorrectly? > >Regards, > >Rich > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.