[rkward-tracker] [ rkward-Feature Requests-1338615 ] Dependency handling when installing packages

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Feature Requests item #1338615, was opened at 2005-10-26 18:30
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Thomas Friedrichsmeier (tfry)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Dependency handling when installing packages

Initial Comment:
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. 

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