Achim Zeileis wrote: > Paul, > > ctv is a contributed package... > > >>I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use >>task views. Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility? > > > No. > I'll see whether there is an easy way to keep install.views() from > installing Windows-only packages on non-Windows machines.
Currently, you cannot know automatically if a package works *only* on Windows (or whatever OS else). We have had this discussion before, and yes, it would be nice to have some additional DESCRIPTION field for OS/platform restrictions. But then it is difficult to have some unique identifiers and to get the information from the OS. And then people might want to do cross-platform stuff and so on. Uwe > >>Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are >>in a view, but I haven't found it. > > > e.g., via: > R> x <- available.views() > R> x[[1]]$packagelist > > Best, > Z > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
