[R] argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/lib/R/library'

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 12:38:44 CEST 2007


On 9/8/07, Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> Paul, what is the question? If the question is why you get this
> warning message, the reason is that the 'lib' argument is missing
> and install.packages is using '/usr/lib/R/library'.
>
> If you want to get rid of the warning supply the 'lib' argument.

Thanks, Gabor. Yes, I want to get rid of the warning message. Since
the warning did not appear before, even without supplying the 'lib'
argument, I thought that something was wrong here.

Paul





> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 11:26:44AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When installing packages, I get the following warning:
> >
> > > install.packages("sqldf")
> > Warning in install.packages("sqldf") : argument 'lib' is missing:
> > using '/usr/lib/R/library'
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > The details of my R installation are:
> >
> > > version
> >                _
> > platform       i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> > arch           i386
> > os             linux-gnu
> > system         i386, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          5.1
> > year           2007
> > month          06
> > day            27
> > svn rev        42083
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
> > >
> >
> > R is here installed on Fedora 7.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
> >
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> --
> Csardi Gabor <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu>    MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK
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