Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> writes: : : Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: : : : install/update.packages() in R-devel has been enhanced in a few ways, : : notably to handle multiple repositories, and to allow packages to be : : reinstalled under the current version of R. : : The change to updating that I would like would be to check before : downloading whether the package is open. Right now using the : update menu item in Windows it checks afterwards : and if its open fails which means that one has to do the download all : over again. If it failed before downloading it would save some : wasted downloads.
While we are on this topic, when I choose Update from the Windows menu recently on R 2.0.0 on XP I get the following which I have never seen before. I am just ignoring these warning messages but am not sure if I should take notice. R> update.packages() trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 22605 bytes opened URL downloaded 22Kb Warning messages: 1: DESCRIPTION file of package 'file2540' missing or broken in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = pkgFlds) 2: number of columns of result not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib, desc)) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
