On Mar 16, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote:
Federico Calboli<f.calboli<at> imperial.ac.uk> writes:
Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI
from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.7.3
I just noticed the following weird issue. If I go to the menu
'Packages and Data', select 'Package
Installer' the installer goes up, but when I tell it to give the
list of binaries available (I like to keep up
to date, and check every couple of days) the list comes up empty.
The list for CRAN sources, and for
Bioconductor binaries work fine.
I tried to change the mirror, but it does not make a difference.
Am I the only one with the problem? what's going on?
I second this observation.
What is going on is that http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/
has an empty PACKAGES file. Given that it hadn't been updated for
a couple of weeks on Weds, you may just need to be patient. But in
any case, only Simon can fix this as only he has sufficient access
to the package builder. So reporting to Simon is always going to be
the most effective way forward for similar problems.
Hmm... it's not empty on the master machine -- use http://r.research.att.com
as the mirror - it should work ...
Could PACKAGES file be in some damaged state that R cannot process?
When I change the repository to that value in the R64 GUI and try to
see either either the binary versions or the source versions of
contributed packages in the Package Installer I get these warnings at
the console:
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://r.research.att.com/src/contrib
I am able to see the .tgz packages at http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/
with Firefox.
I am able to get a list of source packages (but not binary) to display
in the Package Installer if I use a different repository. And I am
able to install binary packages with ... for example:
install.packages("actuar", repo="http://r.research.att.com";,
type="mac.binary.leopard")
(Which updated an existing version to the current version.)
Admittedly I am running a somewhat behind the times version, but this
is completely different behavior than it has exhibited up to a few
days ago.
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David Winsemius, MD
R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-13 r57650)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] splines stats grDevices utils datasets graphics
[7] methods base
other attached packages:
[1] rms_3.4-0 Hmisc_3.9-2 survival_2.36-10
[4] sos_1.3-1 brew_1.0-6 lattice_0.20-0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.14.1 grid_2.14.0 tools_2.14.0
Few days ago the build machine has lost network connectivity due to
a faulty ethernet cable, so maybe it has thrown off mirroring,
that's the closest I can get to an explanation...
Perhaps this can encourage people to test 2.15.0 beta? Its binary
package repository does have a populated PACKAGES file.
Yes, we can't stress is often enough that we need people to test
betas, reporting bugs after the release is too late!
Thanks,
Simon
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Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research
Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
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