[BUGZILLA #16226] install.packages option to install into user library when in non-interactive mode

[MichaelChirico]

running install.packages("") will fail if run non-interactively without permissions to install into the site packages

when running interactively it will instead prompt you to create a personal library to install into

there should be an optional parameter to install.packages which lets you automatically create/install into a personal library if running non-interactively

there are workarounds for scripted installations, but they are more cumbersome than they need to be, and would be avoided with a single boolean parameter

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METADATA

• Bug author - Louis Bergelson
• Creation time - 2015-02-27 19:30:50 UTC
• Bugzilla link
• Status - NEW
• Alias - None
• Component - Wishlist
• Version - R 3.1.2
• Hardware - Other Other
• Importance - P5 enhancement
• Assignee - R-core
• URL -