On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12-03-24 10:53 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >> On 24.03.2012 06:58, Daniel Nordlund wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Dan Tenenbaum [mailto:dtene...@fhcrc.org] >>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 5:48 PM >>>> To: Daniel Nordlund >>>> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org >>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC? >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Nordlund >>>> <djnordl...@frontier.com> wrote: >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- >>>> project.org] >>>>>> On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum >>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:21 PM >>>>>> To: r-devel@r-project.org >>>>>> Subject: [Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC? >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> The page >>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html >>>>>> has a link to: >>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.15.0rc-win.exe >>>>>> >>>>>> However, clicking on that link gives a 404 "Object not found' error. >>>>>> >>>>>> FYI. >>>>>> Dan >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I experienced the same error you did using the link you provided. >>>> However, if you use the CRAN mirror hosted by YOUR organization, you can >>>> get the file. :-) >>>>> >>>> >>>> I don't think so: >>>> >>>> http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.15.0rc-win.exe >>>> >>>> gives me a 404 as well. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I didn't look closely enough at what you were asking for (RC versus beta). >>> R-2.15RC may not have been up-loaded yet. However, I just downloaded it >>> from the original link that was posted, so it appears to be available now. >> >> It may have happened that the scripts generated the webpages before the >> binary was built and checked (since "beta" became "rc" yesterday). > > Yes, they need manual tweaking at the conversion, and I did it after the > first upload. > > If this happens again (which is pretty likely), you can manually download the > previous version by editing the URL to put in "alpha" in place of "beta", or > "beta" in place of "rc". >
... or have a fixed name instead (on OS X we just use 2.15-branch which is unambiguous). For the record I find it extremely annoying that even the installation target name changes in the installer - I keep having to change it to R-2.15 all the time, because I don't see why you would want to have alpha/beta/rc/release of the same R version installed in separate directories by default - but that may be just me ;). To a lesser degree the same applies to patch versions, but since those are released I could see an argument for that, even though in practice I think it is not useful either (because typically you just want to upgrade and not another copy). Cheers, Simon > I'd like to have this handled automatically as it was in the past, but I > don't know the Windows CMD script language well enough to do it. If any > experts want to volunteer to fix this (I think you need to create a batch > script variable from the suffix in a filename), please write to me offline. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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
