Jose resurrected this, and this time I reproduced it. It's a simple bug to fix, just an oversight in a test in install.packages().

It'll make it into 3.3.0.

Duncan Murdoch

On 06/08/2015 7:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 06/08/2015 7:16 PM, Jose Claudio Faria wrote:
     I'd like to see a reproducible example before I declared it to be a
     bug that needs fixing.

     Do note the news item in R-patched (soon to be R 3.2.2):

     | - download.packages()| failed for |type| equal to either |"both"|
     or |"binary"|. (Reported by Dan Tenenbaum.)

     install.packages() can call download.packages(), so this might have
     been fixed now.

     Duncan Murdoch


The bug described is occurring with all recent distributions available!

I discovery today, after install R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-04
r68843), that the bug happens when I copy my packages from old
distribution to the library folder (being careful not to overwrite the
newer ones that comes with the distribution). I've been doing this for a
long time.

As are many, it would be labor-intensive (but not impossible) to find
those responsible for the bug. If you decide that it is necessary I can
go testing package by package.

Without a reproducible example, I won't follow up on this.

Duncan Murdoch


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