On 23/08/2012 21:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 23 August 2012 at 20:42, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| On 23/08/2012 20:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > R-release:
| >
| > edd@max:~$ r -e 'AP <-
available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org";)); print(dim(AP)[1])'
| > [1] 3988
| > edd@max:~$
| >
| > R-devel (version as of a few days ago):
| >
| > edd@max:~$ ~/bin/Rscript-devel.sh -e 'AP <-
available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org";)); print(dim(AP)[1])'
| > [1] 3988
| > edd@max:~$
| >
| > There is a bug somewhere if another count gives 4001.
|
| Hint: available.packages() has filters, so you are not seeing the
| Windows-only packages.
But should I not get all via a default type of 'source' as I am on Linux?
No. Amongst the default filters is
‘"OS_type"’ exclude packages whose OS requirement is incompatible
with this version of R: that is exclude Windows-only packages
on a Unix-alike platform and _vice versa_.
> nrow(available.packages())
[1] 3988
> nrow(available.packages(filter=list()))
[1] 4001
| Note too that the number of packages on CRAN is not monotone: packages
| get added, packages get withdrawn/archived, sometimes 10s at a time.
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/cran/new/ ## New pkgs
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/cran/removed/ ## Rm'ed pkg
You mean archived ...
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/cran/updated/ ## Updates
as well as the overall
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/
Today was pretty entertaining with package mRMRe added as 'new' only to be
removed a few hours later. Fun times...
Not true: it was archived in less than 1 hour.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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