[Rd] problem with tilde expansion in install.packages

[Roger D. Peng]

I didn't compile this version of R myself but I believe readline is 
compiled in -- the command history works and:

 > capabilities("cledit")
cledit
   TRUE

Also,

 > Sys.getenv("HOME")
                   HOME
"/users/student/rpeng"

which is in fact my home directory.

-roger

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Do you have readline working on that version of R?  If so, it is readline 
> problem.  If not, do you have HOME set? - if not, try setting it.
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> 
> 
>>In R 1.9.0 on Solaris/Sparc when I run, for example, 
>>install.packages("gregmisc", "~/R-local/lib"), instead of installing 
>>the `gregmisc' package in the directory 
>>/users/student/rpeng/R-local/lib the package gets installed in 
>>/users/student/rpeng/\~/R-local/lib, so the directory \~ is created in 
>>my home directory.  This doesn't happen to me on Linux or Windows so I 
>>thought it might not be an R problem.
>>
>>I realize I'm referring to an older version of R but I was wondering 
>>if anyone had seen this happen (perhaps on 1.9.1) or how I might 
>>better pinpoint the problem.
>>
>> > version
>>          _
>>platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>>arch     sparc
>>os       solaris2.8
>>system   sparc, solaris2.8
>>status
>>major    1
>>minor    9.0
>>year     2004
>>month    04
>>day      12
>>language R
>>
>>If it matters, I'm using tcsh (in /bin/tcsh).
>>
>>-roger
>>
>>
> 
> 

-- 
Roger D. Peng
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/