[Rd] Rscript fails with some packages (for example, h5)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 December 2017 at 22:14, Sun Yijiang wrote:
| Thanks for the solution.  Now I know the work-arounds, but still don't
| quite get it. Why does R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES has anything to do with
| library(methods)?

Because it governs which packages are loaded by default.  And while R also
loads 'methods', Rscript does not. Source of endless confusion.

| If library(h5) works, it should just work, not depend on an environment variable.

Every package using S4 will fail under Rscript unless 'methods' explicitly.

| Rscript is not consistent with R, that's my confusion.

Indeed. And you are not the first person confused by it.

Dirk

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