TBX: x.x, R install.packages bug

For some environments, R package installation doesn’t work.

For example on Ubuntu 64bits 12.04 TXM 0.7.5 beta :
Running the following R code:

install.packages("stylo")

The installation seems to work because the console messages show the installation process
and finish with:

Rserve>* DONE (stylo)

We can check the installation with the following R code:

library(stylo)

Windows 7 case

On Windows 7:

The user is asked by R if he wish to create a library directory to install R packages.

• If he says “no”, the update fails
• If he says “yes” the directory is created and textometry is installed in that directory. It is only at next TXM startup that textometry is detected.

Solution, is to set a supplementary library directory in $TXMHOME/R/libraries:

.libPaths(c("path/to/txm/r/directory/libraries", .libPaths()))

“path/to/txm/r/directory/libraries” must come first that’s way R will try this directory to install packages

Windows users needs to restart the TXM.

(from redmine: issue id 564, created on 2014/01/30 by Serge Heiden)

added r type::feature + 1 deleted label

changed milestone to %TXM 0.7.6

With Linux, running “install.library” from a Job seems to randomly provoke SIGPIPE errors

(from redmine: written on 2014/05/27 by Matthieu Decorde)

On Windows 7:

The user is asked by R if he wish to create a library directory to install R packages.

• If he says “no”, the update fails
• If he says “yes” the directory is created and textometry is installed in that directory. It is only at next TXM startup that textometry is detected.

Solution, is to set a supplementary library directory in $TXMHOME/R/libraries:

.libPaths(c("path/to/txm/r/directory/libraries", .libPaths()))

“path/to/txm/r/directory/libraries” must come first that’s way R will try this directory to install packages

(from redmine: written on 2014/07/01 by Matthieu Decorde)

closed

assigned to @mdecorde