[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14 October 2008 at 09:39, Simon Blomberg wrote:
| Hi, is anyone else getting this error? Could this be a bug?:
|
| > update.packages(ask=FALSE)
| Error in read.dcf(pkgpath, fields = fields) :
| Line starting 'unix; ...' is malformed!
|
| > sessionInfo()
| R version 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-12 r46696)
| x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Confirmed in plain R using the same package built this morning from last
night's tarball from Denmark: Running update.packages() yields:
update.packages()
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Error in read.dcf(pkgpath, fields = fields) :
Line starting 'unix; ...' is malformed!
OTOH I don't have a problem running my 'update.r' script (included in littler as
/usr/share/doc/littler/examples/update.r) which just downloaded / upgraded
ten packages. It is equivalent to calling
repos <- "http://cran.r-project.org";
lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
update.packages(repos=repos, ask=FALSE, lib.loc=lib.loc)
and that sequence also works in plain R. Could someone please dig into
update.packages() ?
Dirk
Hmm, some of us are wary of running update.packages() in non-production
versions. Is the problem perhaps originating in getCRANmirors() or
chooseCRANmirror()?
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