On 14 October 2009 at 18:54, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 14/10/2009 6:42 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Maybe I missed an announcement somewhere but having started with the usual | > practice of putting R pre-releases into Debian unstable leading up to the | > release of the next R version, I now find myself unable to do my daily | > package maintenance as I only see VR 7.2-49 with its | > | > Depends: R (≥ 2.5.0), R (≤ 2.9.2) | > | > preventing use on R 2.10.0. That stopped the update of the Debian package | > r-cran-effects (which wants MASS) in its tracks. | > | > I see the somewhat hidden MASS 7.3-0 and 7.3-1 in | > | > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MASS/ | > | > so should I be using these? Along with the other components of VR ? | | Yes, see this news item: | | o Bundles of packages are deprecated. See 'Writing R | Extensions' for the steps needed to unbundle a bundle.
That of course I knew as a reader of both your NEWS feed [1] as well as my own CRANberries [2] which carried e.g. Paul Gilbert's dse unbundling. But that still does not answer my new MASS, nnet, spatial, class release are not on CRAN in the usual location (eg $CRAN/src/contrib/) but socked away in the Archive/ subdir. | The VR bundle contained packages class, MASS, nnet, and spatial, which | are now separate recommended packages, whose source is included in the R | source tarball, or on CRAN in | | http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/2.10.0/Recommended/ I guess the fact that VR is special and included in R itself explains part of it. I forget about that angle. Dirk [1] http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel [2] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/ -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
