packrat install.packages does not respect options("configure.args") settings
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Description
On my Mac I have homebrew installed outside of /usr/local. This usually works fine with the exception of rgdal. rgdal requires the following configure args:
options(configure.args=list(rgdal=c('--with-proj-include=/opt/boxen/homebrew/include','--with-proj-lib=/opt/boxen/homebrew/lib')))
I set these in my .Rprofile.
When I do a packrat::restore() rgdal gets built without the benefit of these options and hence fails.
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Start by tracing packrat::restore() through package installation and how options("configure.args") is read for rgdal. Reproduce the Mac/Homebrew case described in the issue, then verify that restore passes the configured arguments to the package build and completes successfully.
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- r
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- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3-5 days
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