Bug 380564

Summary: Dependency handling when installing packages
Product: [Applications] rkward Reporter: Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier>
Component: generalAssignee: RKWard Team <rkward-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
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Description Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2005-10-26 15:30:38 UTC 
-- This ticket was imported from http://sourceforge.net/p/rkward/feature-requests/30 on 2017-05-31 14:48:55 +0100 --
Currently RKWard does not handle 
dependencies when installing packages at all. 
Problem is, that R CMD INSTALL is pretty dumb, 
but install.packages \(\) in the backend does not 
run with su privileges \(normally\). 
At the moment, I can think of two solutions: 
1\) Basically copy the logic of install.packages 
2\) Fire up a second backend \(via kdesu\), and 
have this backend run install.packages 
\(dependencies=TRUE\). Don't forget to set the 
options in that secondary backend. \(It will 
operate on a source \(\)-file\) 
While wasteful, I gues the second is the way to 
go.
Comment 1 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2006-09-13 12:16:17 UTC 
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Added to CVS using approach 2.
Comment 2 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2006-09-13 12:16:17 UTC 
- **assigned_to**: nobody --> tfry
- **status**: open --> closed