Thank you Ista and Duncan for the swift replies. Regards.
-- Luís Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 9 May 2018 4:34 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Luís, > > The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran. > > You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g., > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > --Ista > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Luís Moreira de Sousa via R-help > > r-help@r-project.org wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head > > versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package > > though, is missing from the database: > > > > > pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() > > > > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"] > > > > > > [1] Package > > > > > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason > > for this package to be missing from the database? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > > > Luís > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
