On 09/02/2008 4:41 PM, Paul Lynch wrote: > Hi, > I've downloaded R-2.6.2-win32.exe (base) from two CRAN sites > (http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CRAN/ and > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/) and for both of those sites the > expected MD5 hash is reported to be: > ed512872818707f27ca05f08be7363c2 *R-2.6.2-win32.exe > (See, for example, > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/md5sum.txt). > > However, when I compute the MD5 hash (using two different MD5 hash > generators) I get > 4acf8298a829c2787b8fe848f866999a *R-2.6.2-win32.exe > > Could someone check and confirm that the MD5 sums on the CRAN server > are incorrect? (And fix it?) Thanks, > --Paul > > p.s. Given that two CRAN servers have the bad value, I'm guessing > it's safe to install. It installed okay is seems to be running fine.
I've worked out what happened: there was a build of R-patched which overwrote the release, because it happened before the VERSION file had been updated to include "Patched". I don't upload md5sum.txt in the R-patched or R-devel scripts, so that's why you detected the difference. To confirm this, you could check the NEWS file: it contained entries for 2.6.2 Patched, as well as the 2.6.2 entries. As far as I know it's perfectly safe to use. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
